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Latest State Data on Teen Birth Rates, Abstinence, and Contraception |
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From Ascribe Newsfeed: The 2008 edition of Child Trends' annual Facts at a Glance contains a state-by-state list of teen birth rates as well as data on the percentage of teens in grades 9-12 who abstain from sex or use contraception. - Texas and New Mexico have the highest teen birth rate (62 births for every 1,000 female teens ages 15-19), followed closely by Mississippi. - 23 percent of teen births in Texas, 21 percent in New Mexico, and 21 percent in Mississippi are repeat births, compared with 11 percent of teen births in New Hampshire, 15 percent in Vermont, and 15 percent in Massachusetts. - 47 percent of high school students in Texas and 41 percent in Mississippi abstain from sex, while the rate is 55 percent of high school students in New Hampshire and 56 percent in Massachusetts (figures are not available for New Mexico and Vermont). The report, which is based primarily on Child Trends' analyses of data from the National Center for Health Statistics, also includes national and city-level trends in teen childbearing. Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at all stages of development. Its mission is to improve outcomes for children by providing research, data, and analysis to the people and institutions whose decisions and actions affect children. AScribe transmits news releases directly to newsroom computer systems and desktops of major media organizations via a supremely trusted channel - The Associated Press.
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