Births Among Teens Rise for First Time in 14 Years - Hows that abstinence only working out for ya?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/PreventiveCare/tb/7588

ATLANTA, Dec. 5 -- More babies were born to teens in 2006 than in 2005, the first such increase in this age group since 1991, the CDC reported today.

Also, in 2006 there were 1,641,700 babies born to unmarried women, a U.S. record. This represented a 7% jump in the birth rate for unmarried women to 50.6 live births per 1,000 women, up from 47.5 in 2005. As a result, 38.5% of all babies born in the U.S. last year were born to unmarried women.

The CDC said the report, "Births: Preliminary Data for 2006," prepared by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, represented 99% of all births in the U.S.

The total fertility rate (calculated as live births among women 15 to 44) was the highest since 1971 -- 2,101 births per 1,000 women. It was the first time in 36 years that the rate suggested a population growth, meaning that the rate exceeds the rate at which a given generation can replace itself.

The birth rate for teens ages 15 to 19 increased by 3% from 2005 to 2006. The decline over the previous 14 years reduced the birthrate for teenage mothers from 61.8 births per 1,000 women -- the all-time high reached in 1991 -- to 40.5 per 1,000 in 2005.

[goddess40]

1. It's working as well as it ever has

which means it doesn't. Only stupid people keep trying to make this work.

[Occam Bandage]

2. I find it shocking that teenagers would have sex.

Here I thought that they only had sex because their teachers implied it was a possibility.

I also find it shocking that restricting information on (and access to) birth control would raise birth rates.

I also find it shocking that the sun rose in the east today, despite the fact that it rose in the east yesterday and the day before.

[msongs]

3. but the ones that ARE abstaining....isnt that proooooooooof? nt

[MiniMe]

4. Your tax dollars at work

[BOSSHOG]

5. Yes Mommy I promise to be a virgin until I'm married?

Mommy whats a virgin? Whats a penis?

[yardwork]

6. Terrific. Chimp managed to turn around t14 years of progress.

Heckuva job brownie.