| Though, the age of women is enduring to | | | | Each year in United States, 800,100 to |
| decrease, as younger women look for to | | | | 900,100 adolescents 19 years of age or |
| conclude pregnancies. Statistics are | | | | younger become pregnant .The pregnancy rate |
| instructive that the average age of those | | | | for adolescents 13 to 19 years of age fell 19 |
| receiving abortions is dropping from 19 to | | | | percent from 116 per 1,000 in 1991 to 95.3 in |
| 17. Teen abortion facts also expose that | | | | 1997, reversing a 12 percent rise from 1986 |
| though the teen pregnancy rate has declined | | | | to 1994.From 1995 to 1997, the pregnancy rate |
| in the United States over the last ten years, | | | | for 13- to 19-year-olds decreased in 41 of |
| the percentages have really greater than | | | | the 43 reported geographic areas for which |
| before. Recent information are reporting that | | | | age-specific data were available. |
| over 50% performed annually are on women | | | | |
| under the age of twenty-five with the ages of | | | | During 1995 to 1997, the pregnancy rate |
| eighteen and nineteen accounting for the | | | | declined by 11.5 percent among females less |
| highest number performed. | | | | than 15 years of age, by 10.8 percent among |
| | | | females 15 to 17 years of age, and by 5.9 |
| A disorder called Post Traumatic Stress is | | | | percent among females 16 to 19 years of age . |
| disease millions of teenagers who are not | | | | |
| psychologically steady enough to survive with | | | | For each year from 1995 to 1997, the |
| the trauma associated with an unplanned | | | | pregnancy rate for females 15 to 19 years of |
| pregnancy, life-altering decisions, and the | | | | age was approximately 2.6 times that of |
| devastation of life. After the surgical | | | | females 15 to 17 years of age, and the rate |
| procedure, guiltiness, shame, inconsistent | | | | for females less than 15 years of age was |
| behaviors, and substance abuse, even suicide, | | | | approximately one ninth that of females 14 to |
| can be end result. | | | | 17 years of age. From 1995 to 1997, the |
| | | | national number of pregnancies among females |
| Pregnancy, birth, and abortion rates among | | | | 14 to 19 years of age declined by 3.3 |
| teenagers in the United States have turn down | | | | percent. In 1996, the pregnancy rate for |
| over the past decade but at a standstill | | | | females 15 to 19 years of age in the United |
| remain a widespread public health issue. | | | | States was 83.8 per 1,000 compared to |
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| Reasons for the decline include increased | | | | PREGNANCY RISKS AND OUTCOMES |
| motivation of adolescence to achieve higher | | | | |
| levels of education, the availability of | | | | 95 percent of adolescence believes that if |
| widespread sexuality education in schools, | | | | they were occupied in a pregnancy they would |
| leading to immature people's knowledge about | | | | stay in school; in reality, 72 percent |
| contraception, more effective contraceptive | | | | eventually complete high school 74. 50 |
| use, and improved ability to discuss | | | | percent of adolescence thinks that if they |
| contraceptive practice; and greater community | | | | were occupied in a pregnancy they would marry |
| sustain for services related to both | | | | the mother/father; in actuality, 82 percent |
| pregnancy and disease prevention among | | | | of teenage births are to unmarried teens75. |
| teenagers. | | | | 26 percent of adolescence thinks that they |
| | | | would need benefit to support a child; in |
| PREGNANCY | | | | reality 57 percent receive public support to |
| | | | cover the cost of delivery and 26 percent of |
| Although pregnancy rates among teenagers have | | | | teen mothers receive public support by their |
| steadily turned down in the past decade, the | | | | early twenties77. 32 percent of adolescence |
| United States continues to have the highest | | | | says they would believe an abortion; in |
| teenager pregnancy rates among industrialized | | | | reality, 52 percent of pregnancies to |
| nations. | | | | unmarried teens end in abortion. |
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