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Teen Birth Rates Back On The Rise |
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FOLLOWING DECADE-LONG DECLINE, U.S. TEEN PREGNANCY RATE INCREASES AS BOTH BIRTHS AND ABORTIONS RISE
Gap Between Blacks and Hispanics Has Closed, But Rates Among Both Groups Remain Significantly Higher Than Among Non-Hispanic Whites
For the first time in more than a decade, the nation’s teen pregnancy rate rose 3% in 2006, reflecting increases in teen birth and abortion rates of 4% and 1%, respectively.
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Parents: The Best Sex Educators |
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Most people no longer believe the myth that, just because we talk to youth about sex means we're condoning or giving them permission to have sex. We have youth to thank for setting that record straight - study after study have shown that youth who receive science-based comprehensive sexuality education.
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Teen pregnancy: an endemic problem in Pueblo |
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Originally published in the Pueblo Chieftain
By Jeff Tucker
While there are a number of factors that can lead a family into poverty, one of the surest ways is teen pregnancy.
Pueblo has struggled for years with the question of adolescent girls having babies. Organizations have started educational programs, and nurseries have been moved in and out of high schools.
But the numbers have, for the most part, remained the same.
According to statistics provided by the Pueblo City-County Health Department, anywhere from 30 to 40 teenage girls of every 1,000 gets pregnant in Pueblo every year.
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Comp Sex Ed: Research and Results |
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Since 1997 the federal government has invested more than $1.5 billion dollars in abstinence-only programs – proven ineffective programs which censor or exclude important information that could help young people protect their health. In fact, until recently, programs which met a strict abstinence-only definition were the only type of sex education eligible for federal funding; no funding existed for comprehensive sex education, which stresses abstinence but also provides information about contraception and condoms.
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