Good News Everyone: Teen Birth Rates at Historic Low - Polidicks

[URL]http://www.nbcnews.com/health/teen-birth-rate-hits-historic-low-officials-say-8C11086339[/URL] [QUOTE]The birth rate among teenagers reached another historic low in 2012, government researchers announced Friday, and there is evidence that a switch to more effective means of birth control is a factor. According to the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the birth rate among young women ages 15 to 19 fell 6 percent last year, to 29.4 births per thousand, the lowest rate in the 73 years the government has been collecting the data. The decline was across all racial and ethnic groups. The 2012 number is “a considerable one year drop,” says pediatrician Dr. John Santelli, a professor of population and family health at Columbia University who has no connection to the study. And it follows fairly sizable declines since 2007, when the rate was 41.5 births per thousand young women ages 15 to 19. In fact, except for a small uptick between 2005 and 2007, the teen birth rate has been steadily declining since 1991, when it reached 61.8 births per thousand. “Our data comes from the birth certificate that parents complete at the hospital and it provides a wealth of information,” says Brady E. Hamilton, a statistician with the National Center for Health Statistics and the lead author of the report. But to figure out why the teen birth rate is falling, “we have to rely on other sources,” Hamilton says, such as surveys that the CDC conducts of high schoolers. Santelli has studied those and other survey results. “There is not much evidence of a change in abortion use and not much change in sexual activity” since 2003, says Santelli. For example, the percentage of high school kids reporting ever having sexual intercourse was about 54 percent in 1991, according to the CDC survey, declined through 2002, and then held steady at about 47 percent through 2011, the last year of available data. [/QUOTE]

Must be all that abstinence that all the teens are doing

I'm no lexicographical expert, but I think that "Teen Birth Rates" should be possessive plural. I thought the article was talking about the rate of people giving birth to teens, because confusion. Edit: I've also been playing cookie clicker for, like, three days straight so I may be insane.

[QUOTE=Xain777;42116383]I'm no lexicographical expert, but I think that "Teen Birth Rates" should be possessive plural. I thought the article was talking about the rate of people giving birth to teens, because confusion.[/QUOTE] Thats exactly why its at an all time low noone gave birth to a teenager this year

Another survey also showed that teenage pregnancy falls off [I]significantly[/I] after age 20.

[QUOTE=ScottyWired;42116401]Another survey also showed that teenage pregnancy falls off [I]significantly[/I] after age 20.[/QUOTE] I also heard that males have the lowest pregnancy rate worldwide.

But my womb :(

[QUOTE=Gatsby;42116417]I also heard that males have the lowest pregnancy rate worldwide.[/QUOTE] I'm part of the 0.00023% ;/

[QUOTE=Protocol7;42116444]I'm part of the 0.00023% ;/[/QUOTE] [t]http://i.imgur.com/dYV6uEK.jpg[/t]

finally, teens are starting to realise that they do need to have a condom with themselves

Well of course it's at a historic all-time low, don't you know how young women used to be married back in the medieval era and biblical times?

This is what a decade of AWFUL reality TV shows does.