Sentences with phrase «teen births»

They wrote that improved K 8 education, decreased teen birth rates, and lower incarceration rates all may have contributed to the rise in graduation rates after 2000.

It has a low teen birth rate, a high homeownership rate, a very good high school graduation rate, and high spending for the arts.

When you or your teen are ready, learn as much as possible about the various options available for teen birth control.

This report analyzes town - by - town data to map outcomes related to opportunity such as teen birth rates and academic achievement.

Economic factors, more interest in higher education and greater career choices may play a role both in reducing teen births and prompting some women to put off motherhood until after 30, he suggested.

Texas has the third highest rate of teen pregnancies and the highest rate of repeat teen births in the United States.

New York - New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics shows a 25 percent drop in the U.S. teen birth rate from 2007 to 2011.

Increased K 8 math skills, decreased teen birth rates, and lower incarceration rates may have lifted completion rates between 2000 and 2010

86 % of American teen births are out of wedlock.

Texas has the highest rate of repeat teen birth among all states.

Prior took time for an interview with Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, and in that interview, he touched on some of the problems this state faces: a high teen birth rate, biased and inadequate sex education in our schools, legislation that interferes with private decisions between doctors and patients, and a religious agenda that stands in the way of a woman's right to choose.

Investigated and acquired county - level statistics on teen births, suicide, crime, and substance abuse for use in grant proposals and presentations.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed the lives of young people who came to the United States illegally as children in incredible ways — boosting high school graduation rates and college enrollment, while slashing teen births by a staggering 45 percent.

The US Department of Health and Human Services credits the falling teen birth rate to both more teens choosing abstinence and the increased use of contraception.

Among the reasons given for the falling rates: teens waiting longer to have intercourse, increased use of contraception and, the report posits, the recession likely played some role in holding down recent teen birth rates as it did among all other women under 40.

Despite the popularity of reality shows about the lives of teen mothers, data recently released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show teen birth rates declined three years in a row.

Erie County ranked square in the middle in the state in the County Health Rankings when it comes to health factors, though rates of smoking, obesity, sexually transmitted infections and teen births exceeded the state averages.

He noted that, despite some improvements, «U.S. [teen birth] rates remain among the highest among industrialized countries.»

How are three neighboring counties in Texas doing on reducing teen births across three age categories?

There are more than 400,000 teen births annually in the US, most of them to unmarried mothers on welfare.

It needs to be acknowledged that there is ongoing debate in the research community about the true driving factors behind the negative life consequences commonly linked to unplanned births and especially teen births.

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

We have also only improved in one of the indicators from pre-recession years — number of teen births per 1,000.

As Elizabeth Burke Bryant of KIDS COUNT presented this past week, «Following national trends, we've seen the average teen birth rate decline.

So have districts that were not a high priority, such as the Oxford School District in Lafayette County, which has the lowest teen birth rates in the state.

In «Graduation Rates on the Rise,» authors Richard J. Murnane and Stephen L. Hoffman report that improved K 8 education, decreased teen birth rates, and lower incarceration rates all may have contributed to the rise in graduation rates after 2000.

Last year the investments in these long - acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods proved to dramatically reduce teen birth rates for the women and girls in the program.

«Maybe these long - acting methods are the way to go to reduce repeat teen births in the future.»

86 % of American teen births are out of wedlock.

At that time, he shared his thoughts with this blog on the many issues that needed to be addressed in the legislature, including Arizona's high teen birth rate, inadequate sex education, and health care policy that interferes with private decisions between doctors and patients.

U.S. Teen Birth Rate Correlates With State Income Inequality.

The FFCWS studies add to a large body of earlier work that suggested that children who live with single or cohabiting parents fare worse as adolescents and young adults in terms of their educational outcomes, risk of teen birth, and attachment to school and the labor market than do children who grow up in married - couple families.

Colorado has seen the highest drop in teen birth rates in the entire country, and officials are putting the credit for that on a new family planning initiative that offers low - income women long - acting, reversible birth control methods (e.g. IUDs and implants) for little to no cost.

Manlove says as recently as 1990, 25 % of teen births were repeat births.

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 %.

New Legacy Charter School is a small school for pregnant and parenting teens and their children in northwest Aurora where the teen birth rate is particularly high and school options tailored to young parents are not easily accessible.

In the four zip codes the school intends to serve (80010, 80011, 80012, and 80239), there were 351 teen births (ages 14 — 18) over the past two years for which there is data through CDPHE (2012 and 2013).

The teen birth rate in Original Aurora is particularly high and school options for young parents and their children are not easily accessible.

While the teen birth has dropped significantly over the past 20 years, it remains high in Original Aurora; teen births in the four target zip codes were actually a bit higher in 2013 than in 2012.

Applying this 51 % statistic to the 351 teen births in 2012 and 2013 in the target zip codes would mean that approximately 172 students dropped out.

In 2010 Teen Birth Rate Hits Record Low and C - Sections Decline The birth rate for U.S. teens aged 15 — 19 years hit a record low in 2010, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which also reports the first decline in C - section rate in over a decade.

The change is due in large part to a continuing decline in the teen birth rate.

Among Northwestern cities, the Canadian metropolis, which is home to more than 2.3 million residents, has the highest population density; the greatest rates of cycling, walking and transit riding; and the fewest cars per capita, plus the highest life expectancy, lowest teen birth rate and lowest poverty rate.

She directed a previous research project that found that increases in the minimum wage resulted in a drop - off in teen births.

The results have been extraordinary: within seven years infant mortality decreased by 28 percent to its lowest in Baltimore's history, the teen birth rate decreased by 36 percent, and the disparity between black and white infant deaths decreased by almost 40 percent.

The TV reality show 16 and Pregnant was responsible for one - third of the reduction in the teen birth rate in 2009 — 10, according to a study by economists Phillip Levine, at Wellesley College, and Melissa Kearney, at the University of Maryland.

The authors point out that since «children born to teenage mothers are prone to develop problems that inhibit academic success, the lower teen birth rate could have contributed to both the increases in the mathematics skills of 13 - year - olds and to an increase in graduation rates overall.»