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Teenage pregnancy: High US rates due to poverty, not promiscuity
Teenage pregnancy rates in the US have declined dramatically – 40 percent in two decades – but remain among the highest in the developed world. A new study suggests American teens don't have more sex than teens elsewhere, but that they suffer more "despair" due to poverty.
By Stephanie Hanes, Correspondent / May 22, 2012
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Teenage pregnancy was the focus of a 2010 Candies Foundation campaign featuring Bristol Palin to educate teens about the consequences of pregnancy. A new study links "despair" and poverty to the relatively high US teenage pregnancy rates. PRNewsFoto/The Candie's Foundation
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Why is a teenage girl in Mississippi four times as likely to give birth than a teenage girl in New Hampshire? (And 15 times more likely to give birth than a teen in Switzerland?) Or why is the teen birth rate in Massachusetts 19.6 per 1,000, while it’s 47.7 per 1,000 in Washington, D.C.?
Stephanie Hanes Correspondent Stephanie Hanes is the lead writer for Modern Parenthood and a longtime Monitor correspondent. She lives in Andover, Mass. with her husband, Christopher, her daughter, Madeline Thuli, a South Africa Labrador retriever, Karoo, and an imperialist cat named Kipling.
And why, despite a 40 percent drop over two decades, are teen moms still far more common in the US than elsewhere across the developed world? (And nope, it’s not that American teens have more sex. Many studies have found that US teenagers have less sex than...
