| Notes: | Title from title screen (viewed April 5, 2011).
"National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Reproductive Health"--P. 1.
"April 2011."
"Publication date: 04/05/2011"--P. 4.
"CS221095B"--P. 4.
Fact sheet released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (OSELS) in association with: Vital signs: teen pregnancy -- United States, 1991--2009 published: MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report ; v. 60, early release, p. 1-8.
Includes bibliographical references.
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| Summary: | "More than 400,000 teen girls, aged 15-19 years, give birth each year in the US. The media often glamorize teens having sexual intercourse and teen parenting, but the reality is starkly different. Having a child during the teen years carries high costs--emotional, physical, and financial--to the mother, father, child, and community. Parents, educators, public health and medical professionals, and community organizations all have a role to play in reducing teen pregnancy. During the past 20 years, the rate of teen girls having children has dropped by about 40% to its lowest level since records began being kept 70 years ago. Despite this good news, there is still much work to do, because teen pregnancy has such a huge impact on the future of America's children." -p. 1
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