1. Preventing Teenage Pregnancy
The graph illustrates that the rate of teen pregnancies amongst Hispanic and African American teen girls ages 15-19 are double the rate of non-Hispanic white teenagers. ... Between 1988 and 1995 the amount of adolescent females who first had sex at age 14 or younger almost doubled (Domenico & Jones 6). ... Only 28 percent of the abused girls used birth control the first time they engaged in intercourse compared to 74 percent of girls in the general population (Malika Saada Saar 1). ...
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