Indiana has gone an entire decade with decreasing teen birth rates, until now. From 1997-2005, we have seen a decrease in teen pregnancy from 32.1 per 1000 female teens to 20.5 per 1000 female teens. However, that number rose from ’05 to ’07 and now stands at 21.9. The Indiana Youth Institute sent out an [...]
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Teen Pregnancy Statistics – better but still surprising!
Good ways of showing support to a pregnant teenager are to educate, listen, and help in any way possible. According to PregnantTeenHelp.org, around 750,000 teenagers will get pregnant this year. Breaking this down further, it comes out to about one-third of all girls in the United States will get pregnant while they are a teenager. Additionally, more [...]
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