Tag: Teen pregnancy

• Teen birth rate has dropped dramatically in last two decades: CDC, By Dennis Thompson, August 20, 2014, Philadelphia Inquirer: “U.S. teen birth rates fell dramatically during the past two decades, plummeting 57 percent and saving taxpayers billions of dollars, a new government report shows. An estimated 4 million fewer births occurred among teenagers as a result of the decline, according to researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…”
• Teen births: Most are in the South and Southwest, By Sharon Jayson, August 20, 2014, USA Today: “More teens are having babies in the South and Southwest while the fewest are in the Northeast, according to new state-by-state breakdowns of federal data out Wednesday. Births per 1,000 teenagers (ages 15–19) range from a low of 13.8 in New Hampshire to a high of 47.5 in New Mexico, according to the report from the National Center for Health Statistics based on 2012 data, the most recent available for the states…”

Teenage pregnancy, birth, abortion rates all falling, report says, By Amina Khan, May 5, 2014, Los Angeles Times: “Looks like good news may come in threes. The teenage pregnancy rate, birth rate and abortion rate have all dropped sharply since their respective peaks in the 1990s, according to new research by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on reproductive health. The recent fall in these three rates shows that teen births may be down in part because fewer teens are getting pregnant in the first place, researchers said…”