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Institute for American Values Releases Report on Teen Pregnancy and Decline of Marriage
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U.S. Newswire
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September 22, 1999
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NEW YORK, Sept. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released
today by The Institute for American Values:
Why have three decades of intensive national effort to reduce
teen pregnancy not been more successful? Because for three decades,
we have misunderstood the problem, says Maggie Gallagher in a major
new report that fundamentally challenges a generation of expert and
popular thinking on this subject.
Says Gallagher: "What we have called our 'teen pregnancy' crisis
is not really about teenagers. Nor is it really about pregnancy. It
is about the decline of marriage."
In "The Age of Unwed Mothers," newly released from the Institute
for American Values, Gallagher points out that the number ...