Young adults more likely to say vaccinating kids should be a parental choice

[riversedge]

Source: Pewresearch.org





http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/02/02/young-adults-more-likely-to-say-vaccinating-kids-should-be-a-parental-choice/




Fact Tank - Our Lives in Numbers
February 2, 2015


Young adults more likely to say vaccinating kids should be a parental choice

By Monica Anderson

Vaccines Public OpinionAs the number of measles cases linked to the California outbreak climbs to over 100, health officials are urging parents to properly immunize their children, citing unvaccinated individuals as a main contributor to the disease’s spread. Some have linked the outbreak to the anti-vaccination movement – a group whose members claim vaccinations are unsafe and ineffective.

A Pew Research Center report released last week shows that a majority of Americans say children should be required to get vaccinated. Further analysis of the survey data reveals significant age differences in views about vaccines. In 2009, by contrast, opinions about vaccines were roughly the same across age groups. Also, some modest partisan divisions have emerged since 2009, when Pew Research last polled on the issue.

Overall, 68% of U.S. adults say childhood vaccinations should be required, while 30% say parents should be able to decide. Among all age groups, young adults are more likely to say vaccinating children should be a parental choice. Some 41% of 18- to 29-year-olds say parents should be able to decide whether or not their child gets vaccinated; only 20% of adults 65 or older echo this opinion............

Although some have linked the anti-vaccination movement to more-affluent, highly educated parents, Pew Research data show little difference in people’s views based on income or education.

Read more: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/02/02/young-adults-more-likely-to-say-vaccinating-kids-should-be-a-parental-choice/

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[Vinca]

1. Young adults haven't seen the illnesses we now vaccinate against.

If they had, they wouldn't entertain the thought of not vaccinating their kids. Iron lungs and braces were scary things.

[uppityperson]

14. I wonder if their parents bought into the autism stuff, exposing them through their youth that

vaccines are bad? Combine that with not being around the diseases like you say and it is not surprising.

[Daemonaquila]

2. Which is why babies shouldn't have babies.

Just because they can, doesn't mean it's a good idea. If you've never had the life experiences to understand actual risks and benefits, it's easy to have lots of uninformed opinions. Unfortunately, there's another life or lives that will be affected by those uninformed opinions.

[nichomachus]

3. Vaccinating isn't a matter of personal choice

It's a matter of public responsibility and public health. You don't get vaccinated to keep yourself from getting sick, as much as to prevent you from spreading diseases to other people.

Refusing to be vaccinated or letting your kid be vaccinated is the same as "making a personal choice" not to put brakes on your car.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. I wonder if this could be because these young adults were fully vaccinated when they were children

and they have never experienced or seen the effects of these childhood diseases.

I am old enough to have experienced measles and mumps. I had childhood friends who wore braces because of polio. I made sure that my children were fully vaccinated according to their pediatrician's schedule.

[Iliyah]

5. I don't know what poll this is but majority of the "young"

adults I know say yes to vaccinations. But alas, when the measles spread, the polled young adult's opinion will probably change.

Nevertheless, I see polls as a way to control the narratives of what corporate media are trying to obtained. Enough people getting sick with diseases that can be easily contained will wake up the sleepers, maybe, or, just blame it on Pres O.

[sakabatou]

6. WHAT?!

Vaccines really should become mandatory >.>

[geek tragedy]

7. Milennials are also more likely to believe the crap about vaccines causing autism.

The education system has failed them.

[NickB79]

8. I grew up playing in 19th-century graveyards

There were several 100+ yr old cemeteries near the farm I grew up on as a kid, and I used to spend a lot of time with the neighbor kids biking, hiking, exploring around the area, shooting cans with pellet guns, etc. Some graveyards were still maintained, others were being consumed by the woods. Being 10-yr old boys, we thought it was cool to hang out there. I took to reading the tombstones.

Even as a kid, I noticed that there were as many kids buried in those old pioneer graves as there were adults and old men and women as I read the dates. A lot of babies and toddlers. Far too often, there were multiple members of the same family buried next to each other with expiration dates within days or weeks of each other. Disease outbreak graves. Mumps, measles, flu, cholera, who knows what. My great-grandparents and great-great grandparents grew up in the same area as pioneer farmers, so it's possible they had known some of those buried there.

It was an eye-opening revelation that's always stuck with me, the thought of losing half your family, your mother or father, brothers or sisters, even babies, to diseases we treat so casually today.

Anyway, my 4-yr old daughter is vaccinated against anything and everything her pediatrician can think of.

[jeff47]

9. Well, we decided to embrace woo.

Should we be surprised when "the kids" also embrace woo?

[TNNurse]

10. OK, I'll say it.

If you choose to not vaccinate your child, these are the rules:

If you go out in public and by that I mean school, grocery stores, restaurants, church, malls.... you know where there are other people, you must

1) Have a your child clearly identified as "UNVACCINATED...BEWARE"
Perhaps a cap, a jacket, a tattoo.....
2) You must leave any area where people ask you to leave.... the park, the ball field... wherever.
3) You must understand that you have no legal recourse against anyone who refuses you and your child to any place, any time anywhere..... that includes an ER, an ambulance or Red Cross emergency shelter.

Are we really this ignorant in this country? Are we just a bunch of narrow minded individuals and are not united about anything???

[BlueJazz]

12. You'll probably get some nasty posts but I'll damn sure stand with you.

These Anti-V people (to me) are just as bad as the climate deniers.

[TNNurse]

18. You have to be bold to get some people's attention.

If they do not understand that I meant to be over the top, so maybe they should pay attention to someone.

[enough]

17. +1 (nt)

[riversedge]

20. 'your freedom ends where my freedom begins" can apply

here. Harsh at times but when it comes down to preventing illness--then so be it.

[One_Life_To_Give]

11. “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”

There is a reason we embraced vaccinations years ago. Appears new generations will be forced to learn why?

[AZ Progressive]

13. This is just another consequence of Americans having an "I don't give a damn" attitude

Along with American's exceptional levels of self-centeredness nowadays.

[AtheistCrusader]

15. This is why, whatever arguments we may have, whatever bad blood between progressives and the DLC etc

this. This right here, is why I will never abandon the Democratic Party. We perceive a problem, and we take action to actually solve it.

Republicans/Tea party/Libertarians, they perceive a problem and immediately start obfuscating it, being reactionary about it, hiding it, calling it a conspiracy, calling it a threat to liberty, etc. Anything BUT solving the problem.

Fuck freedom, fuck liberty. That isn't even the question on the table. The question really is, are you so fucking stupid that you will clamor about imaginary dangers, while allowing horrible diseases we'd pretty much vanquished in this country, to come screaming back to life and kill kids? Is that the choice you would make?

We shouldn't even have to talk about requiring it. It's a fucking no-brainer. Why is there a debate on this? Room temperature zombies can figure this one out.

[enough]

16. Another effect of dumbing-down education (in science, history, and ethics). (nt)

[Turbineguy]

19. The right

to be stupid shall not be infringed!

[Still Sensible]

21. A casualty of the failure of schools to require

a vigorous science curricula, coupled with the fact that the recent generations in the U.S. generally didn't experience measles, mumps or chicken pox.

[blkmusclmachine]

22. Anti-vax = flat Earther = Republican

[FrodosPet]

24. So the demographic trend does NOT favor Democrats?

If anti-vaxx equals Republican, and it is primarily young people who are anti-vaxx, does that correlate to more young people are skewing GOP?

[DebJ]

23. People in their twenties always have an immortality complex. Check out their auto

insurance rates. There is a reason for that.

[Orsino]

25. So the Children Left Behind are growing up.

And growing up ignorant.