Why Have Teen Pregnancy Rates Dropped?

Better sex education, though a sensible practice, doesn?t deserve the full credit. Teen pregnancy is often blamed on some states? promotion of school-based ?abstinence-only? education, which neglects contraception. But the recent drops in teen pregnancy were present across the country, in states with comprehensive sex education (like New Jersey, where annual teen pregnancy rates dropped from 11 percent to 7 percent) and those without it (like Texas, where the rate is higher but fell by about the same relative amount). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 40 percent of teens didn?t use a condom at last intercourse, and that sorry figure doesn?t vary much by state. And between 1995 and 2010, depressingly, the substantial percentage of teens who used no contraception at all remained unchanged nationwide, indicating that teens didn?t suddenly start using birth control.

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