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Teen births fall again, another drop in decades of decline
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of San Francisco Chronicle/Associated Press


San Francisco Chronicle/Associated Press, June 2, 2016
Posted: June 13th, 2016
http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Teen-births-fall-again-...

Teen pregnancies fell again last year, to another historic low, a government report shows. The continued decline is really quite amazing, said Brady Hamilton, the lead author of the new report released Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, the birth rate for U.S. teens dropped 8 percent. Rates have been falling since 1991, and this marks yet another new low. Experts cite a range of factors, including less sex, positive peer influence, and more consistent use of birth control. The credit here goes to the teens themselves, said Bill Albert, spokesman for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. The new report is based on a review of most of the birth certificates filed last year. There were nearly 4 million births. Thats down slightly from the 2014 total, by about 4,300. Other key figures from the CDC report [include that] the birth rate was 22 live births per 1,000 females ages 15 through 19, [whereas] the rate was 24 per 1,000 the year before. Unmarried moms accounted for about 40 percent of births.

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