In the countries whom the birth rate is lower they have better sex education, use contraceptives more and most do not teach abstinence, anyone surprised? http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/30/teen-birth-rate-far-higher-w-europe/ US teen birth rate still far higher than W. Europe ATLANTA – The rate of teen births in the U.S. is at its lowest level in almost 70 years. Yet, the sobering context is that the teen pregnancy rate is far lower in many other countries. The most convincing explanation is that contraceptive use is much higher among teens in most Western European countries. Last week, U.S. health officials released new government figures for 2009 showing 39 births per 1,000 girls, ages 15 through 19 — the lowest rate since records have been kept on this issue. That's close to the teen birth rate for Romania, Turkey and Bulgaria in 2007, the latest numbers available from the World Bank, which collects a variety of data gauging international development. The teen birth rate for Western Europe and a few other countries is dramatically lower. In the United Kingdom it's 24 per 1,000 girls. In traditionally Catholic Ireland, it's 16 and in Italy it's 5. France's rate is 7 per 1,000. Canada's rate is under 13, Sweden's is under 8, Japan's is about 5, and in the Netherlands it's close to 4. The disparity has existed for decades. Several experts say the reason mostly has to do with more realistic approaches to birth control. Birth control is less expensive and easier for teens to get in many other developed countries than in the United States. And teachers, parents and physicians tend to be more accepting of teenage sexuality and more likely to encourage use of contraception, said Sarah Brown, chief executive of the Washington, D.C.-based National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Teen births are a concern: The hazards of teen pregnancy include higher dropout rates, as well as possible health and other problems for young mothers and their kids. There are few comprehensive studies of why teen birth rates vary from country to country. And experts say there's probably not one overarching explanation. For example, the reason for a low teen birth rate may be different in the Netherlands, where prostitution is legal, than in Japan, which traditionally has a more conservative culture when it comes to sex and sex education. Some countries may have predominant social values that discourage teenage sex, but abstinence-only education programs — a hot topic in the United States — are generally not considered a major reason other countries have lower teen birth rates. "Not at all," said Cecilia Ekeus, a researcher in international public health at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute. "We're working the opposite way," she added, describing Sweden's comprehensive sex education and easy teen access to condoms and birth control pills. Experts say teen births can be lower when: — Teens have less sex. — Teens use contraception correctly and often. — A larger proportion of pregnant teens has an abortion. But do those explain the international differences? As to the first, there is no evidence teens in Europe are having less sex than American teens, so that's not considered a likely explanation. If anything, "there may be more sex there than here" among teenagers, said Carl Haub, a demographer with the Washington, D.C.-based Population Reference Bureau. As to the third, most international comparisons of abortion rates are considered dated and somewhat unreliable because of incomplete information. One smaller study found the United States had a higher abortion rate than Canada and some European countries, and not all experts think it's a major reason for different birth rates. But some researchers say abortion is a significant factor in some nations. In Sweden, for example, abortions are legal without parental consent — and quite common. Indeed, one in two women who get pregnant in their lifetime has an abortion, said Ekeus. There's much more consensus that birth control is the key to a lower teen birth rate. Studies indicate that about 80 percent of sexually active teen girls in Sweden and about 88 percent in England and France use contraception. In the United States, it's about 61 percent. And in some European countries they are more likely to use longer-lasting forms of birth control, such as the IUD, experts said. Other explanations? Perhaps race and ethnicity, said Dr. Monique Chireau, a Duke University assistant professor who researches adolescent pregnancy. She noted the birth rate for white U.S. teens — about 26 per 1,000 — is much lower then the black and Hispanic rates (59 and 70, respectively). "There are distinctions between different ethnicities," and the U.S. whites are more comparable to countries with more homogenous white populations, she said. Factors like proportions of teens that are married in each country, proportions living in poverty, and other demographics also should be considered, she and others said. Cultural expectations have a lot to do with it, too, said several sources pointing to societies where teen childbearing is not considered an attractive option. In Sweden, teen motherhood is so far outside the norm that young moms often are assumed to have other problems like a psychiatric diagnosis or drug addiction, Ekeus said. Swedish teen mothers "differ very much from the general population," she said.
Yeah, even though the U.S rate is still high amongst the Industrial countries the fact that it's the lowest in 70 years is a very good thing but U.S is the leading country for abortions so I'm not sure how much it would be if abortions were illegal country wide
this is interesting http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/05/26/teen-pregnancy.html#socialcomments Last Updated: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Teen pregnancy rates in Canada dropped nearly 37 per cent over a decade, say researchers who point to some of the reasons why. The study, released Wednesday in the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, showed Canada's rates of teen pregnancies between 1996 to 2006 declined 36.9 per cent, compared with a 25 per cent decline in the U.S., a 4.75 per cent fall in England and a 19.1 per cent increase in Sweden. The researchers compared the most recent trends in teen pregnancy or birth/abortion rates. "In 2006, the lowest teen birth/abortion rate per 1,000 women aged 15-19 was in Canada (27.9) followed by Sweden (31.4), England/Wales (60.3), and the U.S.A. (61.2)," the study's authors wrote. Sex education and easier access to birth control partially explain why far fewer teenage girls are getting pregnant, said Alexander McKay, research co-ordinator at The Sex Information and Education Council of Canada, which released the study. "More and more young women in Canada are feeling optimistic about educational and employment opportunities," said McKay. "When that tends to be the case, we tend to see lower teen pregnancy rates." The decline in teen pregnancies didn't surprise teenage girls at Jarvis Collegiate in Toronto. Girls are "smarter now, so they choose to use protection," said one girl. "In my area, there's a walk-in clinic. There's people there to talk to if you have any questions about birth control and stuff like that," said another. The study also found about 50 per cent of all 16- and 17-year-olds are sexually active, according to Statistics Canada. That figure hasn't changed, McKay said. Canada's teen pregnancy rate is usually defined as births, abortions and stillbirths or miscarriages, but because of differences in the data among the four countries, the teen pregnancy rate for this study was calculated based on live births and abortions only. Teen miscarriage rates were so low that they likely had little impact, the researchers said.
Uncle Ferd says is `cause dey done learned from their mommas dat the courts gonna make the guy pay child support no matter what, even if dey wasn't usin' birth control... U.S. teen pregnancy rate remains highest in developed world January 19, 2012: Teen pregnancy rates in the United States have fallen in recent years, but the country still has a higher rate than any other developed country, according to data released Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
have no doubt many will be surprised and even more still will be in complete denial... low teen rate in the netherlands has nothing to do with prostitution, it's cultural maturity more than anything else, they think of sex as normal human behaviour and don't go into sanctimonious hysterics a the thought of teenagers having sex...early sex education and easy access to birth control is the answer in the netherlands... and Japan may not have legal prostitution but there's not much being done to discourage it...and we may think of Japanese as conservative but according to many people who I know that have worked there, as well as my sister for 12 yrs, sex is not an issue, they're very European/liberal in that regard... when societies learn to accept sex as normal behaviour and not something to be ashamed of, that's when unwanted pregnancies decline...
You don't know many teenagers, do you? Were you EVER a teenager? Worrying about how they are going to raise a baby is the LAST thing they are thinking about when the issue of sex is up and hot!
..... Teen pregnancy is down because: 1) men do not take enough showers 2) lesbians coming out of the closet 3) gays are generally not interested 4) females have discovered that masturbation hardly ever makes a girl pregnant. 5) males are just not that good at making love 6) having a baby will interfere with their college plans and would keep them in the f**king ghetto
Teenage pregnancy is a global problem... 16 Million Teenage Girls Get Pregnant Every Year July 11, 2013 > Thursday, July 11, is World Population Day and the focus this year is on adolescent pregnancy. Its estimated that 16 million teenage girls give birth every year. Many are in African or other developing countries.
The birth rate is down in all these countries for women at all ages and its gotten to the point where the birth rate is less than the death rate.
In Japan they sell more adult diapers than baby diapers. This whole quest to make sure young people don't have kids but get to screw is not the great thing it's made out to be.
Teen Birthrates Continue To Drop... Teen births hit historic low, half of 1991 September 6, 2013 ~ Teen birthrates were down for all racial and ethnic groups.
Birth Control and Contraception do not cut abortion numbers. Contraception increases sexual activity i.e., that more contraception means more sex. "One study, based on Centers for Disease Control data, established clear links between birth control and increases in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). STD increases are a very reliable indicator of increased sexual activity and show that contraception is wrongly perceived as low-cost insurance a perception that motivates increased sexual activity. And more sex means more pregnancies. Why? Because contraception is far from 100% effective, and with mass distribution of contraception comes a commensurate increase in sexual activity. More pregnancies will result because contraception fails in predictable percentages. It is noteworthy that failure rates are highest in Planned Parenthoods customer base: Failures are highest among cohabitating and other unmarried women, among low income, African-American and Hispanic women, among adolescents and women in their 20s. For example, adolescent women who are not married but cohabitating experience a failure rate of about 47% in the first year of contraceptive use. In Sweden, between 1995 and 2001, teen abortion rates grew 32% during a period of low-cost condoms, oral contraceptives and over-the-counter emergency contraception. Similarly, National Review recently reported that out of 23 studies on the effects of increased access to ECs, not one study could show a reduction in unintended pregnancies or abortions. A recent ten-year study in Spain was reported to have found the same thing: [C]ontraception use increased by about 60%, the abortion rate doubled. In other words, even with an increase in contraception use, there werent fewer unwanted pregnancies, there were more. Planned Parenthoods own affiliate, the Guttmacher Institute, showed simultaneous increases in both abortion rates and contraceptive use in the U.S., Cuba, Denmark, the Netherlands, Singapore, and South Korea. Guttmacher cites other countries as evidence of the opposite relationship, but it is noteworthy that many of those countries already had high abortion rates, often as part of existing coercive government policies. Planned Parenthoods Frederick S. Jaffe, in Abortion Politics, admitted that even if everyone were to practice contraception, and use the most effective medically prescribed methods, there would still be a very large number of unwanted pregnancies. Abortionist and international contraception promoter Malcolm Potts [former director of Planned Parenthood of England] 1976 (even as early as 1973) quoted in Sex and Social Engineering by Valerie Riches.- As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate . In Abortion, he noted, those who use contraception are more likely than those who do not to resort to induced abortion (*)(*)(*) Alfred Kinsey, 1955: At the risk of being repetitious, I would remind the group that we have found the highest frequency of induced abortions in the groups which, in general, most frequently uses contraception. Sociologist Lionel Tiger, 1999: With effective contraception controlled by women, there are still more abortions than ever [C]ontraception causes abortion. (*)(*)(*) British Abortionist Judith Bury, Brook Advisory Centres, 1981: women have come to request [abortions] when contraception fails. There is overwhelming evidence that, contrary to what you might expect, the provision [availability] of contraception leads to an increase in the abortion rate. Conclusion. Real-world studies show that contraception has not reduced, but has instead increased unintended births. Therefore, President Obamas recent HHS edict has a very questionable basis in fact. It has also alienated a large swath of the electorate and is in all likelihood unconstitutional. That makes this a case of bad science and religious bigotry." http://www.physiciansforlife.org/content/view/2209/72/
does STD's have anything to do with abortion .. no .. so off topic Sweden Historical Abortion Statistics. 1994 - Reported abortions = 32293 1995 - Reported abortions = 31441 1996 - Reported abortions = 32117 1997 - Reported abortions = 31433 1998 - Reported abortions = 31008 1999 - Reported abortions = 30712 2000 - Reported abortions = 30980 2001 - Reported abortions = 31772 Source - http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/ab-sweden.html For a much fuller data set for Sweden abortions rates there is the Official Statistics report from 1955 -2009 here - http://www.socialstyrelsen.se/Lists/Artikelkatalog/Attachments/18031/2010-5-12.pdf and as can be seen on page 25 the teenage abortion rate (under 19) from 1995 to 2000 rose from 16.9 / 1000 to 21.2 / 1000 which is a 32% increase, but when seen in the actual numbers is an increase of 4.3 in every 1000 women, so in a five year span 4.3 more teenagers per 1000 women got an abortion, expressing this as a percentage is only done to make it seem far worse than it is. However since the introduction of legislation in 2010 changing Spain's abortion laws the number of abortions has declined. Historical data shows that the abortion percentage rate in Spain increased from 13.8% (2000) to 19.1%(2010) an increase of 5.3% - http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/ab-spain.html
I learned something. I learned from this post that the teen giving birth rate in the United States is at its lowest in 70 years, and I had previously thought it was at its highest.
Teen pregnancy rates drop in the U.S.... US Teen Pregnancy Rates Plummet April 29, 2016 | WASHINGTON U.S. teen pregnancy rates have fallen nearly 50 percent among Hispanic and black teens, and the overall teen birth rate has dropped more than 40 percent in the past 10 years.
Ya, too bad the Republicans are working so hard to change that!!! They want to shut down clinics that provide reproduction health services for poor women........and FORCE more teens to have babies...how sick is that? """"But the CDC's Dr. Lee Warner told VOA that teen birth rates remain the highest in areas where "unemployment and lower income and education are more common."""" So REPUBLICANS say, Hey, we don't want PP in poor neighborhoods, that's targeting!" Well, WhereTF would they be used to best advantage????
