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Parents’ Health Plans May Not Cover Children’s Pregnancies
The new health care law allows parents to insure their children under the parents’ plans until the kids are 26 years old, but the law does not guarantee that that health coverage would apply should the...
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Lower Abortion, Teen Pregnancy Rates Due to Free Birth Control, Study Finds
A new large-scale study has found that access to free contraceptive pills is part of the explanation for well-documented drops in the rates of both teen pregnancy and abortions. The finding comes...
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U.S. Teen Birth Rate Plummets Yet Again
Following the trend of recent years and decades, the number of babies born to teenaged mothers fell radically, dropping 8 percent between 2010 and 2011 alone, according to data from the National Center...
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Newly released court papers document how a mother in the United Kingdom forced her 14-year-old daughter to become pregnant using syringes of donor sperm, apparently in a desperate attempt to have...
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Nearly All 50 States See Drop in Teen Birth Rate
Teen birth rates have been declining steadily in recent years, but they now have shown marked declines in virtually every U.S. state, especially in the Mountain states and especially among the Hispanic...
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Teen Birth Rate Drops Again, Hits Historic Low
Researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, both federal agencies, have released new data confirming that the number of babies born to...
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U.S. Pregnancy Rates Still Falling
A federal report has found that the number of pregnancies in the United States continues to fall, a trend that has continued for decades. More from Health Day Reporter: The rate reached a 12-year low...
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’16 and Pregnant’ May Be Effective Cautionary Tale
A new study of the effect of reality TV shows like MTV’s “16 and Pregnant” has found a connection between the shows, which depict the lives of teen mothers, and a “cautionary tale” effect that may...
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What the Annual ‘Kids Count’ Report Discovered About U.S. Kids
The annual “Kids Count” report that measures the well-being of American children based on 16 indicators of economic, educational, health, and family welfare, has found encouraging improvements in...
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Good News: Teen Pregnancy Is On the Decline!
Birth rates among teenagers have declined dramatically, according to new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since reaching a peak height in 1957, birth rates have...
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U.S. Birth Rates Still Declining
With the recession and the economic downturn, which began in 2008, U.S. birth rates declined to an all-time low in 2013. Millennial women wondered if they could afford raising kids, with some choosing...
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