vox’s Sarah Kliff reports on some of the surprising reasons that the U.S. teen birth rate
vox’s Sarah Kliff reports on some of the surprising reasons that the U.S. teen birth rate has plummeted to historic lows. No. 6 on her list: Today’s boys are less sexually active than teenage boys 20 years ago: The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey shows, over the past three decades, a general decline in the share of male teenagers having sex (although there has been a slight uptick in recent years). There have also been increases in male high school students using condoms since the 1990s. This could be a product of concern over HIV/AIDS infection, which may have had the side effect of preventing teenage pregnancies. Another likely factor in the decline: There are fewer kids of teen moms. There’s a wide body of research showing that children of teen moms are more likely to become teen parents themselves…. The teen birth rate has been steadily declining since the 1990s. And that means there are fewer kids born with this particular risk factor…. -- source link
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