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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Need source, last time I heard pregnancy rates are very much down.
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They were until this last fall, and then they began to rise again.
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On Wednesday the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the teen birth rate in the United States increased in 2006 for the first time in 14 years, and unmarried childbearing reached a new record high: 38.5 percent of all U.S. births. (The CDC's report is based on data from the nearly 4.3 million births in the United States last year.) Between 2005 and 2006, the teen birth rate rose from 40.5 to 41.9 live births per 1,000 Americans aged 15 to 19. The increase was highest among black teens, at 5 percent. Hispanic teens had a 2 percent increase, and non-Hispanic white teens were in the middle at 3 percent. Until this year the teen birth rate had been decreasing steadily from its all-time peak in 1991.
Why is the teen birth rate increasing again despite the $1.5 billion spent on abstinence-only sex education since 1996?
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/74005
http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/r...NCHS_2006.aspx
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Last edited by snowy; 03-27-2008 at 07:50 AM..
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