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Article: 51% Latinas and teen pregnancy.
- Article from:
- Conscience
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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THE PROGRESS THE NATION has made in reducing teen pregnancy has been breath-taking. The teen pregnancy rate in the United States has declined 36 percent since 1990, and the teen birth rate has plummeted by one-third since 1991. Even more encouraging, adolescent pregnancy and childbearing have declined in all 50 states and among all racial and ethnic groups. This good news makes clear that progress on difficult social issues is possible--that commitment, attention and action can help solve a problem many once considered intractable.
Despite these impressive gains, the reductions in adolescent pregnancy and childbearing have been neither even nor uniform. Too many ...