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Teen Pregnancy Prevention
As the National Center in Maternal and Child Health reports, almost one million American adolescents become pregnant annually. Despite a 22 percent decline in the adolescent birth rate from 1991 to 2000, the United States continues to have the highest rates of adolescent pregnancy and births in the western industrialized world. Adolescent pregnancy and childbirth have serious challenges for the adolescent mother and father, the child, and society in general. Adolescent mothers are less likely to complete school and more likely to be single parents. Children born to adolescent mothers suffer from high rates of low birth weight and related health problems. And, adolescent pregnancy imposes large costs on U.S. taxpayers - at least $7 billion annually. 1
Teen Pregnancy Prevention
1Maternal and Child Health Library, Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Knowledge Path , http://www.mchlibrary.info/KnowledgePaths/kp_adolpreg.html
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