May 23, 2013

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Teen Pregnancy Rate

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Teen Pregnancy: A Complex Dialogue

Inwood House | Posted 04.01.2013 | Impact

Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Teen Pregnancy, Young Men, Women, Inwood-House, Teen-Pregnancy-Prevention, Mayor Bloomberg, Impact News

We have all seen the posters decrying teen pregnancy on the streets and in the subway stations here in New York. The question of how best to reach young people with a prevention message, though, has not been answered clearly.

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Fighting Teen Pregnancy With Peer Influence

Catherine M. Abate | Posted 03.31.2013 | New York

To effectively encourage teens to make the right decisions about sex, their relationships, and their health, we need to expand our strategies to include more teen-to-teen education.

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A School For Teen Moms AND Their Babies (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Hannah Orenstein | Posted 11.02.2012 | Teen

At the Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit, 220 high school girls learn from their teachers, take notes, and bond with friends. At first glance, it'...

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Why Teen Pregnancy Has Dropped To An All-Time Low

CP | The Associated Press | Posted 06.10.2012 | Teen

Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Teen Mom Amber, Video, Cp, Teen Births, Teen Pregnancy, US Teen Birth Rate, Teen Birth Rate, Teen Pregnancies, Teen News

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Teen births fell to a record low in the United States in 2010, according to a new government report.The Centers for Disease Control a...

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11-Year-Old Gives Birth

Posted 04.10.2012 | Latino Voices

Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Video, Wayuu Tribe, Latin America Pregnancy, Teen Pregnancy, Contraception, Pregnancy, Global Motherhood, Slidepollajax, Latino Voices News

UPDATE: 4/10/12 5:00 p.m. -- Additional reports have come in indicating the young girl was 10 years old. Previously: An 11 year-old Colombi...

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What Increases The Likelihood Of Teenage Pregnancy

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.04.2012 | Business

While plenty of research confirms that living in poverty increases the chances of teen pregnancy, new information suggests that when low-income teenag...

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Staff Outs Pregnant 8th Grader To Entire School Assembly

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 08.07.2012 | Home

Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Student Humiliated, Video, New Mexico Schools, High-School-Law-Suits, Teen Pregnancy, School Teen Pregnancy, Student Expelled, Student Bullying, Pregnancy, Home News

Shantelle Hicks, a 15-year-old from Gallup, N.M., claims she was first forced to leave the Wingate Elementary School and then publicly outed as being ...

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Teen Moms Speak Out About Balancing Motherhood And College

| Jessica Salerno | Posted 02.22.2012 | Home

Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Teenage Pregnancy, Video, Teen Pregnancy Stories, Teen Mom, Teen Mothers, Teen Pregnancy, Teen Mom Stories, Young Mothers, Teen Pregnancies, Teen Moms College, Home News

A typical day for a college girl consists of going to class, hanging out with friends, maybe catching an episode of Jersey Shore and meeting up later ...

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Number of Teens Getting Pregnant, Having Abortions Plummets

Posted 02.09.2012 | Home

Read More: Teen Pregnancy, Teen Pregnancy Rate, Abortion, Teen Pregnancy Rates, Teen Abortion, Guttmacher Institute, Video, Home News

A Guttmacher Institute study reveals that in 2008, teen births and abortions decreased to their lowest levels since 1972 -- the year before the Suprem...

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Dante And Shakespeare Inspire Teen Moms To Continue Their Education

HuffingtonPost.com | Cindy Y. Rodriguez | Posted 02.08.2012 | Latino Voices

Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Holyoke, Video, The Care Center, Teen Pregnancy, Latinas, Hispanics, Massachusetts, Teen Birth Rate, Latina, Latino Prosperity, Latino Voices News

Teen mothers are getting a taste of the prep school experience, replete with studying the classics from Dante to Shakespeare, through an innovative pr...

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Teen Sues Family Over Forced Abortion

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.10.2012 | Politics

Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Abortion, Teen Abortion, Abortion Rights, Teen Pregnancy, Abortion Legal Battle, Pro-Life Groups, Forced Abortion, Video, Politics News

A 14-year-old teen from Corpus Christi, Texas, is suing her family in order to stop them from forcing her to have an abortion, according to ABC News. ...

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Rick Perry Struggles To Answer Question About Sex Ed: 'Abstinence Works'

Posted 10.24.2011 | Home

Last summer, Texas chose to pass on $4.4 million in federal funds aimed at sex education for adolescents in the state, The Texas Tribune reported. ...

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Sex Education Tips

Kerry Cohen | Posted 10.15.2011 | New York

Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Stds, Education, Parenting Teenagers, The New York Times, Promiscuity, Sex Education, Sexuality, Teenagers, New York News

Somehow, regardless of everything we know about sex education, regardless of everything we know about how little abstinence education works, we still shudder at the thought of our teenagers learning about sex.

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The Juno Effect -- Media, Teens and Pregnancy

Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: 16 and Pregnant, Teen Pregnancy, Pregnancy, Juno, Teen Pregnancy Rate, Skins, Mtv Skins, Media News

Pregnancy -- like teen sex -- is no longer a secret. It's ratings. The progression from hidden shame to primetime programming raises questions. Have we gone from ignoring the issue to glorifying it?

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US Teen Birth Rate Lowest Since 1940

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

ATLANTA — The U.S. teen birth rate in 2009 fell to its lowest point in almost 70 years of record-keeping – a decline that stunned experts ...

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Teen Pregnancy Rates Highest In South

The Hill's Healthwatch | Mike Lillis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Poverty, Sex Ed, Abstinence Only Education, Public School, Public Health, Teen Pregnancy, Pregnancy, Abstinence Education, Teen Sex, Teenagers, Home News

In Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, for instance, 2008 birth rates were less than 25 per 1,000 teens aged 15 to 19, CDC found. I...

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A National Stand to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

Janet Murguía | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Latina, Women's Health, Teens, Teen Pregnancy, Health Care Reform, Teen Sex, Education Reform, Teenagers, Stds Teenage Girls, Teen Pregnancy Rate, Teen Sex Education, Sex Education, Politics News

Before the age of 20, 52% of Latina teens become pregnant at least once. At almost twice the national average, Latinas have the highest teen pregnancy and birth rates of any major ethnic group in the United States.

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Who Put Failed Ab-Only Programs Back in Health Care Reform?

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Std, Obama Sex Education, Abstinence Only, Reproductive Rights, Teen Pregnancy, Abstinence, Health Care Reform, Reproductive Health, Abstinence Education, Title V, Health Care, Sex Education, Politics News

By James Wagoner, President, Advocates for Youth Lost in the shuffle of analysis of the new health care reform legislation, is the fact that Democrat...

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San Francisco Values Save the World!

Mark Morford | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Abortion, Teen Pregnancy Rate, Red States, Divorce, Family Values, Teen Pregnancy, Religious Right, Blue States, Hate Speech, Birth Control, Gay Marriage, Sex Education, Sodomy, Christian Right, Evangelicals, Healthy Living News

Would the spittle-flecked bipeds who write to me (or comment down below) and misspell "commy" and "sodimite" listen or care in the slightest? I already know the answer.

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Reproductive Education Program Helps Break Poverty Cycle

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

When Precious joined our teen pregnancy prevention program, she was 10 years old and headed straight back toward the cycle of poverty that she had come from.

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Black History Month: Addressing Health Disparities

Sharon L. Camp | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Abortion, Teen Pregnancy Rate, Health Disparities, Guttmacher Institute, Black History Month, Reproductive Health, World News

As the United States celebrates Black History Month, one enduring challenge we face as a nation is the persistent health disparities between black and...

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Policies to Curb Latina Teen Pregnancies Have the Reverse Effect

Silvia Henriquez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Latinas, Teen Pregnancy Rate, Teen Pregnancy, Latina Teen Pregnancy, Latina, Politics News

It may be politically expedient to treat high Latina teen pregnancy rates as the problem to be solved rather than the result of social inequities -- but it isn't likely to be effective.

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Shock Teen Pregnancy Video In UK Sparks Controversy (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

An extremely explicit YouTube video meant to scare teenage girls out of ever getting pregnant has become somewhat of a web sensation after it was init...

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How the Candie's Foundation and Bristol Palin Created a National Dialogue on Teen Pregnancy

Neil Cole | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Teen Pregnancy, Teen Sex Education, Teen Sex, The Candie's Foundation, Bristol Palin, Healthy Living News

Whether we, as Americans can agree on safe sex vs. abstinence is not the issue here; the issue is educating teens about pregnancy prevention.

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Teen Births Rise Again: Are Babies Always a Blessing?

Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style

Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Teen Pregnancy, Teen Birth Rates, Parenting, Bristol Palin, Sex Education, Sexuality, Style News

But a true blessing is in having the ability to make informed decisions, the freedom to speak up, access to reproductive health services, and having accurate and effective sexuality education.

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