Trends in Teen Pregnancy and Childbearing

Press Release: Study Shows MTV's 16 and Pregnant, Teen Mom ...

As Kearney and Levine addressed in an earlier study, the U.S. teen birth rate ranks high among developed countries, although it has been ...

Special Issue: Adolescent Pregnancy: Past, Present and Future ...

As the fertility rate among adolescents essentially declined after 1960, so did their rate of non-marital childbearing increase, to over 90% today. However, ...

Pregnancy before 16 increases long-term health complications for ...

UT Southwestern researchers found that pregnant girls 15 and younger face steeper health risks than older teen and adult patients.

Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing: Levels and Trends in ...

The level of adolescent pregnancy varies by a factor of almost 10 across the developed countries, from a very low rate in the Netherlands (12 pregnancies per ...

Strategies and Approaches for Prevention

Research suggests that implementing evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs, expanding access to Medicaid family planning services and Title X clinics ...

Early adolescent childbearing in Colombia: time-trends and ...

If a teenage pregnancy is not terminated, the health of the mother and the fetus are at risk, as well as the newborn's health. This is especially true if the ...

May is Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Month! Every 28 minutes ...

The Cost of Teenage Pregnancy. Teen pregnancy and child-bearing have significant economic and social costs. Teen childbearing (teens 19 and younger) in. North ...

The History of Teenage Childbearing as a Social Problem

portion of women, especially teenagers, who gave birth to a child out of wedlock. ... It seems that teenagers were merely at the forefront of a trend away from ...

Prevalence and determinants of adolescent childbearing - Frontiers

High pregnancy rates among adolescent girls are associated with lack of education, less decision-making power in household and family planning, ...

Australia's children, Teenage mothers - Australian Institute of Health ...

In 2017, around 6,600 babies were live-born to teenage mothers—a rate of 9.2 live births per 1,000 females aged 15–19. Births to teenage mothers made up 2.2% of ...

Gender Perspectives on Social Norms Surrounding Teen Pregnancy

Background: Social concern with teen pregnancy emerged in the 1970s, and today's popular and professional health literature continues to ...

Teen Pregnancy Prevention - dphhs

Trends in Teen Pregnancy and Childbearing · Challenges of Teen Childbearing ... teen pregnancy prevention, teen pregnancy, and teen parenting. Collapse ...

PREGNANCY AND CHILDBEARING - Planned Parenthood

U.S.. Teenage Pregnancies, Births and Abortion, 2008: National Trends by Age, Race and Ethnicity. New York: Guttmacher Institute. [Online]. http://www ...

Trends in Teen Birth Rates - Wyoming Department of Health

1. Wyoming's teen birth rate has been higher than the national rate for several years. Teen births can have negative impacts on both the mother and child and ...

Risking the Future: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and ...

Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing ... More than 1 million teenage girls in the United States become pregnant each year; nearly half give birth.

Teen birth rate drops to all-time low in US - CNN

The birth rate among teen girls has dropped 67% since 1991, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, which presented preliminary ...

Adolescent Pregnancy: Past, Present and Future Trends and Issues

Through considerable efforts and investments of resources, adolescent pregnancy and birth rates in the United States have decreased significantly over the past ...

Young Mothers - Births to mothers under age 20 in Pennsylvania

Having children at a young age has been linked to numerous social, economic, and health consequences. Teenage pregnancy is associated with a higher risk of ...

Adolescent birth rate (aged 10-14 years - the United Nations

Pregnancy and childbearing at these ages are ... Comparison of the levels and trends of the adolescent birth rate and total fertility rate.

Teen Birth Trends: In Brief - Every CRS Report

About 210,000 of these births (5.3%) were to teenagers aged 15 to 19. Figure 1 shows the birth rate for teens aged 15 to 19 from 1950 through ...