How the West is cutting teen pregnancy (BBC)
By Keith Moore
BBC News
"Here's a story of utter irresponsibility: About one-third of American girls become pregnant as teenagers," wrote columnist Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times recently.
It seems like a shockingly high number. And eight years ago it was accurate.
In 2006, this was the cumulative risk of a teenager becoming pregnant once between the ages of 13 and 19. It was calculated by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, a non-profit organisation, using data for births and abortions and an estimate for the number of miscarriages.
But when the same formula is used with the most recent figures, from 2010, it indicates that the number of teenage American girls becoming pregnant is now less than one in four, a reduction on track with changes over the past two decades.
Bill Albert, chief programme officer for the National Campaign, says teen pregnancy and birth rates have been declining in the US "almost without interruptions" for nearly 20 years, after peaking in the early 1990s.
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30275449
If you suspect this is due to abstinence-based sex education, you *really* need to read the article.
