Rise in teen pregnancy sends off alarms
By Rob Stein The Washington Post The pregnancy rate among teenage girls in the United States has jumped for the first time in more than a decade, raising alarm that the long campaign to reduce motherhood among adolescents was faltering, according to a report released Tuesday. The pregnancy rate among 15- to 19-year-olds increased 3 percent from 2005 to 2006 — the first jump since 1990, according to an analysis of the most recent data collected by the government and the nation's leading reproductive-health think tank. "The decline in teen pregnancy has stopped — and in fact has turned around," said Lawrence Finer, director of domestic research for the Guttmacher Institute, the nonprofit, nonpartisan research group in New York that conducted the analysis. "These data are certainly cause for concern." Visit the Seattle Times website to read the entire article.
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