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Are the teens on teen mom the only ones?

Many people talk about the teens on 16 and Pregnant and how we as a nation have increased our teen pregnancy rates, but according to News Day teen pregnancies are at an all time low. “There has been a phenomenal drop [of 9 percent] in the last two years,” said Brady Hamilton. Many people frown upon the the fact that now more than ever we have been hearing about teen pregnancies but according to this article there has been a 44% drop in teenage pregnancies since 1991.

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“The U.S. teen birthrate is still among the highest for industrialized countries, however.” This makes me wonder because we may have the most teenage mothers recorded but what about all of the other industrialized countries that don’t always record every teenage birth. Also in the US we consider 19 year olds teenagers but in many other countries any age above 18 is considered an adult.

The largest concern that I have with this article is that many teenage pregnancies are not considered pregnancies if they are aborted. While I do think that the rates have dropped due to education in schools I still believe that our rates of pregnancies are very high but we just have ways to invalidate it, thus causing less teenage moms. What do you think? Do you think this article is wrong or right?

To read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/health/number-of-u-s-teens-giving-birth-at-a-low-1.3653711

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  1. buddhabear28

    Gababoutbio, I have to agree that abortions may alter the statistics of teenage pregnancies and thus misrepresent how many teenage pregnancies actually occur. However, I think the most important thing about teenage pregnancies are its effects on the development of the mother and child in relation to society. Here’s a link that sheds some light on this concern: http://pregnancy.about.com/od/teenpregnancy/a/Teen-Pregnancy.htm

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