USA TODAY: …The birthrate for teens, ages 15 to 19, dropped 6% from 31.3 births per 1,000 teen girls in 2011 to 29.4 in 2012. Teen birthrates were down for all racial and ethnic groups.
This is the lowest teen birthrate since 1940 when data on teen births started being collected, says lead author Brady Hamilton, a statistician with the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s less than half of what it was in 1991, the recent peak of teen births (61.8 births per 1,000 teen girls), he says.
“This is a truly remarkable success on a pressing social issue that many once considered intractable,” says Bill Albert, a spokesman for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy… (more)
