About.com Contraception Guide Dawn Stacey reports that the U.S. teen pregnancy rate rose 3% from 2005 to 2006 for the first time since 1991. It's too early to know if this is a trend but health education experts are looking for causes because the teen pregnancy rate had fallen 34% from its all-time peak in 1991.
U.S. Teen Pregnancy Rate Rises for First Time in Years
By Matt Rosenberg, About.com GuideDecember 8, 2007
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As long as our federal education dollars are linked to teaching “abstinence” rather than birth control, we can expect teen pregnancy rates to be significantly higher than those in counties that have a similar standard of living. Western Europe doesn’t have this problem.
Tom,
Western Europe doesn’t have this problem. In fact, they don’t have babies at all (an alarming negative growth rate i.e. population decline)!
If women are able to have only as many children as they choose to, why should other people be “alarmed”? I don’t understand why a dropping birth rate is “alarming”? It’s only alarming to those for whom control of women is the over-riding cultural value. The human race is in no danger of becoming extinct. If only patriarchal attitudes toward women and their choices would go extinct…