CDC's Division of Reproductive Health is pleased to announce a new Web page for health care providers with tools, resources, media, and messages on what they can do to reduce teen pregnancy.
Although the teen birth rate has declined substantially over the past two decades, teen childbearing remains a national concern. Child Trends' latest brief, Examining State-Level Patterns in Teen Childbearing: 1991-2009, uses state-level data to examine declines in the teen birth rate over 19 years. The brief describes variation across states during this timeframe, in the degree of decline and in patterns over time.
Welcome to the Latino Resource Center. Assembled here are a number of materials and activities focusing on teen pregnancy among Latinos in the United States. We hope these materials will help you initiate and/or supplement existing efforts to address teen pregnancy in the Latino community.
As the fiscal crisis continues in most states, governors and legislatures are considering budget cuts to early childhood programs. But research from the Pew Center on the States shows that spending less today on evidence-based children's policies means taxpayers will face much higher costs later for problems including child abuse and neglect, high school dropouts, crime, teen pregnancy and drug and alcohol abuse.
