,,Teenage Sexual and Reproductive Behavior in Developed Countries:Can More Progress

Teenage Sexual and Reproductive Behavior in Developed Countries:Can More Progress


 

Publication Date: November 2001

Publisher: Guttmacher Institute

Author(s): Jacqueline E. Darroch; Jennifer J. Frost; Susheela Singh

Research Area: Population and demographics; Social conditions

Type: Report

Abstract:

There is strong consensus in the United States that teenage pregnancy and birth levels are too high. Despite dramatic decreases in teenage pregnancy rates and birthrates in the United States over the past decade, this country still has substantially higher levels of adolescent pregnancy, childbearing and abortion than in other Western industrialized countries.