From Reuters, statistics from 2006 show Teen Pregnancy in the U.S. is on the rise after a 10 year decline:
The overall teen pregnancy rate was up 3 percent in 2006, with a 4 percent rise in the rate of births and a 1 percent rise in the rate of abortions, according to the report by [...]
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New Report: Teen Pregnancy on the Rise in the U.S.
Pregnancy Rates on the Rise in the U.S.
Here’s some news we found at The Examiner about pregnancy rates in the United States.
In a report published online in the December 21, 2009 edition of Pediatrics more than 4.3 million U.S. births were recorded for the year 2007, a 1 percent increase over the previous year. According to the Centers for Disease Control [...]
Getting Paid Not to Get Pregnant
On the website, opposingviews.com, we found this interesting article about a program in North Carolina that awards money to young women when they enroll in college. The only stipulation is that cannot get pregnant.
Called “College Bound Sisters,” it began in 1997 as the health department in Guilford County worked to combat a high [...]
CDC Report: Comprehensive Sex Education is Effective
Found via the National Partnership for Women and Families website. A new report, commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reached the following conclusions:
Sex education programs that advise students to delay sexual activity while also offering instruction on ways to avoid unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections effectively reduce risky [...]
STI Education and Testing in the News
Because of rising Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) rates, some local governments are planning on instituting some new policies. From The Daily Women’s Health Report:
Washington, D.C., officials are planning to make testing for sexually transmitted infections available at all public high schools in the coming school year, adding D.C. to a growing list of [...]
New Report: U.S. Teen Pregnancy, STDs on the Rise
From the ABC News website, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found that after years of declining numbers, teenage birth rates and occurrences of STD infections are on the rise:
* About one-third of adolescents hadn’t received instruction on methods of birth control before age 18.
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Obama Administration Cuts Abstinence Funding from 2010 Budget
From the Seattle Times:
..Obama wants to redirect funding from “abstinence-only education programs to evidence-based and promising teen pregnancy prevention programs.”
Obama wants to eliminate a $38 million state grant program plus a nearly $100 million pot of money that is supposed to be spent for abstinence education at the direction the Administration for Children and Families, [...]
Today is National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Today, May 6th, 2009, is the National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
The Website RHReality Check has some thought provoking articles about teen pregnancy prevention.
The New York Times has an interesting piece about the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina and how they are using text messaging to teach sex education [...]
Pending Legislation News
Here’s some news of pending legislation making rounds:
Introduced in Congress by Representative Barbara Lee (CA) and Senator Frank Lautenberg (NJ), The Responsible Education About Life Act authorizes federal funding for comprehensive, medically accurate sex education for teens.
In Wisconsin. there is proposed legislation that grants judges the discretion to order GPS monitoring on [...]
In the News
Here are some stories that might be of interest:
Domestic Violence:
From The Charlotte Observer: One Quarter of all homicides in North Carolina related to Domestic Violence.
The recession and domestic violence: Bill Moyers speaks with Marta Peláez, President and CEO of Family Violence Prevention Services in San Antonio, Texas, about Domestic Violence and the Economic Downturn.
Teen [...]
