Teen Pregnancy
Teen pregnancy is an extremely big issue in the society of today. Every were you turn people are either talking about it or you see a girl that is pregnant. The education on safe sex is given but a lot time ignored or purposely forgotten by these teens. Theirs is no one for these girls to blame but them selves even do there mistakes cost every one.
The statistics for 1996 show that in Colorado 11,930 girls became pregnant within that year. In 1993 alone, 12,554 babies were born to adolescents who were 15 years age of age or younger. In general there is approximately about one million teenagers that become pregnant within the fifty states, that comes out to be that 10 percent of all girls between that age of 15 to 19 become pregnant. What is amazing is that the birth rate in the United states has declined steadily since the 1990's but the teen pregnancy rate has inevitably increased. In, addition the United states has the highest teen pregnancy rate in......
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