tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56099181670677597802024-02-18T18:48:01.884-08:00Teen Pregnancy PreventionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609918167067759780.post-22643087072949063892012-05-24T15:19:00.001-07:002012-05-24T15:19:16.111-07:00Teen Pregnancy Quick Facts<br />
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white;">The U.S. teen pregnancy rate dropped six percent between 2008 and 2009.</b></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white;">About 750,000 teens get pregnant in the United States each year. </b></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white;">Nevada has the highest teen birth rate; 113 out of every 1,000 teens will get pregnant.</b></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white;">About 1 in 3 women become pregnant at least once before they're 20.</b></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white;">A sexually active teen who does not use contraceptives has a 90% chance of becoming pregnant within a year.</b></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white;"><br /></b></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white;">Only a third of teen mothers earn their high school diploma. And only 1.5% have a college degree by age 30.</b></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white;">Girls born to teen mothers are more likely to be teen mothers themselves. </b></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white;">Boys born to teen moms are more likely to end up in prison.</b></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white;">75% of girls and over half of boys report that girls who have sex do so because their boyfriends want them to.</b></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white;">8 in 10 girls and 6 in 10 boys say they wish they had waited until they were older to have sex.</b></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: white;">Most teens (6 in 10) and adults (3 in 4) believe that teen boys often receive the message that they are “expected to have sex.”</b></span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Teen pregnancy costs the United States $9 billion each year. This includes increased spending in child welfare costs and public sector health care.</b></span></span></li>
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