Griffin+Teen+Pregnancy


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The U.S. has the highest birth rate in the world, 48/1,000, even after the rate dropped 34 percent over the past 15 years.
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Is teen pregnancy as big of a problem as everyone says it is?
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Alabama has a 68.4 teen birth rate, the highest in America. 70 percent of teens having sex before the age of 19 results in 750,000 teen pregnancies per year. Some reasons for teens having sex is that they’re bored and have nothing else to do, or they do it so they can fit in with their friends or the popular crowd.
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Most people think that rock and rap lyrics influence teens to have sex, but you would be surprised to hear that the lyrics have been as sexual as ever and the pregnancy rate has gone down.
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If you get pregnant as a teen, you will make your life less fun and more difficult than it really needs to be. You have to spend most of your time on the baby and less time on yourself. You won’t be able to live your life how you would like to in your younger days.
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There have been more and more programs to help prevent pregnancies with teens. Programs like sex education and other programs on topics like relationships, parenting, and pregnancy. Research shows that these recent programs have been helping the cause.
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