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08-26-2016, 06:51 AM
Those creepy robot babies increase teen pregnancies, study says
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You k**w how the old saying goes; give a teen a creepy robot baby and she’ll be more likely to fall pregnant. *
While **t a common phrase, it's the conclusion drawn by researchers in a study on "infant simulator programmes," released Thursday.*
SEE ALSO: Baby born on a plane receives generous gift from airline (http://mashable.com/2016/08/18/baby-born-on-airplane-gets-miles/)
A West Australian study of one teen pregnancy prevention program, published in The Lancet (http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30384-1/fulltext%20)medical journal warns that giving crying, peeing virtual babies to young people could be an ineffective use of public funds. *
U.S. readers may be familiar with the Baby Think It Over program from RealityWorks (http://www.realityworks.com/). The Australian version is called the Virtual Infant Parenting (http://www.virtualparenting.com.au/) (VIP) program and it's this that the study is based on. * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/25/robot-baby-teen-pregnancy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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You k**w how the old saying goes; give a teen a creepy robot baby and she’ll be more likely to fall pregnant. *
While **t a common phrase, it's the conclusion drawn by researchers in a study on "infant simulator programmes," released Thursday.*
SEE ALSO: Baby born on a plane receives generous gift from airline (http://mashable.com/2016/08/18/baby-born-on-airplane-gets-miles/)
A West Australian study of one teen pregnancy prevention program, published in The Lancet (http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30384-1/fulltext%20)medical journal warns that giving crying, peeing virtual babies to young people could be an ineffective use of public funds. *
U.S. readers may be familiar with the Baby Think It Over program from RealityWorks (http://www.realityworks.com/). The Australian version is called the Virtual Infant Parenting (http://www.virtualparenting.com.au/) (VIP) program and it's this that the study is based on. * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/25/robot-baby-teen-pregnancy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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