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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTeen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50 percent decline among Hispanics and blacks
Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50 percent decline among Hispanics and blacks
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
April 28 at 3:18 PM
The birth rate among American teenagers, at crisis levels in the 1990s, has fallen to an all-time low, according to an analysis released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The decline of the past decade has occurred in all regions in the country and among all races. But the most radical changes have been among Hispanic and black teens, whose birth rates have dropped nearly 50 percent since 2006.
Theories on the reasons for the dramatic shift include everything from new approaches to sex education to the widespread availability of broadband Internet. But most experts agree on the two major causes.
The first is the most important and may be obvious: Today's teens enjoy better access to contraception and more convenient contraception than their predecessors, and more of them are taking advantage of innovations like long-acting injectable and implantable methods that can last years over a daily birth control pill. But the second cause is something that goes against the conventional wisdom. It's that teens -- despite their portrayal in popular TV and movies as uninhibited and acting only on hormones -- are having less sex.
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(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
April 28 at 3:18 PM
The birth rate among American teenagers, at crisis levels in the 1990s, has fallen to an all-time low, according to an analysis released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The decline of the past decade has occurred in all regions in the country and among all races. But the most radical changes have been among Hispanic and black teens, whose birth rates have dropped nearly 50 percent since 2006.
Theories on the reasons for the dramatic shift include everything from new approaches to sex education to the widespread availability of broadband Internet. But most experts agree on the two major causes.
The first is the most important and may be obvious: Today's teens enjoy better access to contraception and more convenient contraception than their predecessors, and more of them are taking advantage of innovations like long-acting injectable and implantable methods that can last years over a daily birth control pill. But the second cause is something that goes against the conventional wisdom. It's that teens -- despite their portrayal in popular TV and movies as uninhibited and acting only on hormones -- are having less sex.
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(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50 percent decline among Hispanics and blacks (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Apr 2016
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Human101948
(3,457 posts)1. They couldn't be having less sex than I had as a teenager...
Before the Pill.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)2. Bristol Palin is the one having all the kids
Response to tonyt53 (Reply #2)
demmiblue This message was self-deleted by its author.
Hekate
(90,681 posts)4. Your message is as gratuitous as the post you are replying to
demmiblue
(36,850 posts)7. You are right... I am going to delete my response. n/t
Hekate
(90,681 posts)8. Aw, thanks -- I know, sometimes the snap response is just irresistable. These are tense days.
Better to come, I hope.
Hekate
(90,681 posts)5. This is incredibly good news. So good I'll count is as the best today.
It's a victory for education and access.
romanic
(2,841 posts)6. All thanks to absintenance.
No but this is great news.