WhitneyTeen Pregnancy Statistics for 2010
May 3rd 2010 14:58
What makes it fair?
Nothing, but there's nothing we can do about it... Or is there? Could more emphasis on protected sex in schools be a benefit to teenagers? Could more emphasis on open relationships with school counselors and parents benefit? Could we get rid of the abstinence only theory and try something different?
Teen sex is a controversial subject especially in schools, because there are so many moms who have the idea of, "if we don't talk about it, they won't do it, so we don't need to teach them how to do it safely because they won't experiment and try otherwise."
It's not safe, especially when you have teenagers like those in Gloucester, who made a pact to all get pregnant. For one reason or another these girls all under the age of 16 decided it was cool to get pregnant. Why? No one was talking to them.
The predicted statistics for 2010 teen pregnancy rates are to be on the rise again. After the decline of teenage pregnancies in the 1990s, it's reported to increase in the mid-2000s.
Already, teen births have risen about 4% since 2006, and teen abortions have risen about 1%. Looking at the 2006 statistics, about 7% of teen girls got pregnant, which is a substantial number, considering that's about 71.5 pregnancies per 1,000 teenage girls.
In 2010, the numbers are thought to rise, but it is too soon to tell by what percent.
Looking at the current statistics, though, there was a steady decline in teen pregnancy between 1990 and 2005, but once 2006 hit, we started to see a noticeable difference in the number of teenage girls getting pregnant, having babies or getting abortions. The percent of teenage girls who got pregnant between the age of 15 and 19 rose 3% between 2005 and 2006. Although, this doesn't sound like a large number, think about the number of teenage girls in that range that really needed to have a child.
As the year progresses, it will be interesting to see how much of a rise in teen pregnancy we have experienced in 2010.
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