A government report says that a year ago teen pregnancies hit a record low, falling by 8 percent.
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319-c-21-(Diane Kepley, AP correspondent)-“was almost 645,000″-AP correspondent Diane Kepley reports the nation’s teen birth rate is on the decline”.
You keep seeing these headlines because the rate keeps dropping, according to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. The 2015 rate was the lowest since the federal government began tracking teenage births in 1940. The birthrate for teenagers has dropped 64% from its peak in 1991, the agency said.
Those aged 20 to 24 had 3 percent fewer births a year ago, a figure that has declined by 27 percent during the past decade.
318-v-32-(Diane Kepley, AP correspondent)-The rate of teen pregnancies in the USA has fallen to a new low.
The 2015 birthrate among teens was the lowest since the USA federal government began tracking teenage births in 1940.
The number of American teenagers getting pregnant continues falling.
Hoskins noted that making certain forms of contraception – such as intrauterine devices (IUDs), hormone injections, and lower-dose birth control pills – easier to use and more available to younger patients has been very beneficial. And the increases in levels of estrogen and progesterone that come with pregnancy can have negative effects on a body that is still developing, she said.
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About 40 percent of births in 2015 occurred among unmarried women, a number unchanged from the previous year. Switzerland had the lowest rate at eight per 1,000.
