According to the Washington Post, 16 and Pregnant led to a 5.7% reduction in teen births (Goldstein). That is a whopping 20,000 fewer teen births a year. ... In 2009, there were 39.1 births per 1000 women between the ages of 15 and 19. This was the mark of an all-time low in teenage birth rates. ... The United States has the highest teen birth rate in the first world. ...
Some people also argue that if there was more birth control/sex education in the schools, there would be fewer pregnancies. ... Some girls become sexually active due to their peer pressure, social changes, and media, while other girls say they have not been educated on right and wrong birth control methods. ... Of course, many will probably disagree with this assertion that infants born to teen has higher medical risk for prematurity, low birth weight, and inadequate fetal growth than who gives birth at 20-30's. ...
In the early 1910s, espousing artificial means of birth control remained controversial. ... In 1914, socialist and public-health nurse Margaret Sanger was arrested for publishing The Woman Rebel, a newsletter that contained articles on sexuality and birth control. ... After the charges against her were dropped in 1916, Sanger opened America's first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York. Over the next few years, Sanger and other activists gained national support as they wrote and lectured widely on the issue of birth control. ... With the support of physicians, birth control ca...
Experts estimate that the combination of lost tax revenues and increased spending on public assistance, child health care, foster care and the criminal justice system totals about $7 billion annually for births in teens. Despite a 20-year low in the teen pregnancy rate and an impressive decline in the teen birth rate, the United States still has the highest teen pregnancy rate of any industrialized country (Casey Foundation, 1996). ... In Kids Having Kids: A Robin Hood Foundation Special Report on the Costs of Adolescent Childbearing, researchers note, "During her first 12 years of parenthood,...
People who are wishy washy with contraceptives, saying that artificial birth control is totally wrong, but that natural family planning is okay, are not going along with Catholic teaching. ... This says that the Catholic Church deems it wrong just to think about cutting out procreation, which, the pull out method and natural family planning both do even without any birth control pills, condoms, diaphragms, vaginal rings, or other forms of artificial contraceptives. ... The debate over, "the use of contraceptives is not a new controversy," (Locke) says Journalist Laura Locke, this mea...
Opponents of these programmes claim that providing access to condoms and even discussing the benefits of birth control and disease prevention methods other than abstinence encourages teenagers to engage in sexual activity that might otherwise refrain from. ... Funded programmes are prohibited from directly discussing birth control. ...
