All generalizations are wrong, except this one – all teenagers are stupid.

You are stupid not because you do not know and do not know that you do not know, but because when told you do not know by someone who knows and whom you should know knows, you still do not care to know.

Recently, while speaking to a friend about his teenage years, he talked about how a neighborhood teenage girl once busted into his room and found him in a compromising position with another girl. She quickly slammed the door and ran out. The next day, she visited.

“I didn’t know you mess around with local girls,” she said. “If you were really a man, you should chase big girls like me and see that you have no chance.”

“What do you mean?” my friend said, holding her hand.

She pulled her hand away, ever so gently. The way she swung her body to and fro, he knew her heart was not in getting away. He tugged her. She fell right unto his arms. Then an embrace. Slight. Tight. Tighter. A rub of her hair. A kiss on the forehead. On the lips. Tongue touched. Tied.

Minutes later, they were entangled in bed.

All teenagers are stupid.

I remember that today because the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that for the first time in 14 years, teenage pregnancy rates in the U.S. increased by 3.5%. In New York alone, 40, 000 teenagers from the ages of 10 -19 will be pregnant this year. Out of that number, 80% will be unintended pregnancies.

Why is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention keeping data on teen pregnancies? Is teenage pregnancy a disease?

According to the CDC, one-third of women in the United States become pregnant by the age of 20. A sexual active teenage girl has 90% chance of being pregnant.

But ask any teenage girl out there and she will tell you it cannot happen to her.

All teenagers are stupid.