Sentences with phrase «teen birth rates declined»

The teen birth rate declined by an additional nine percent in 2014 alone and is at historic lows for all age groups and all ethnic and racial groups.

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This new initiative to offer long - lasting and reversible birth control instead of the pill or condoms is said to be responsible for three - quarters of the decline in the state's teen birth rates, down 39 % compared in the national drop of 29 %.

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Albert and other experts at CDC and in the field attribute the decline to a variety of factors, including lower rates of sexual activity, greater use of contraception, and a higher incidence of physicians educating and offering teen mothers long - term birth control methods such as IUDs and hormonal implants, which can prevent a second unintended pregnancy.

Teen birth rates have declined in the past 10 years in Georgia and Oklahoma (as they have nationwide), but both states remain far above the national average.

While there have been dramatic changes in the lives of parents as welfare caseloads declined, more single mothers entered and remained in the labour force, and teen pregnancy and out - of - wedlock birth rates declined, the outcomes for children have changed very little.

Since the early 1990s, teen pregnancy and birth rates in the United State have declined by 51 percent and 61 percent respectively and are now at record low levels.

A new study by the Guttmacher Institute released last week, U.S. Teen Pregnancies, Births and Abortions, 2008: National Trends by Age, Race and Ethnicity, found that pregnancy rates have declined dramatically among all teens over the past two decades, and that these declines have been primarily driven by improved use of contraception, particularly increases in the use of highly effective methods and dual use of contraception and condoms.

Declines in rates were steepest for Hispanic teenagers, among whom teen births dropped 34 percent.