One thing being done to combat this problem is that teachers in health classes give out information at our school. Also, we see there are commercials and websites that help teens.
* Over eight hundred thousand teens become pregnant each year.
* 10% of women aged 15-19 become pregnant each year.
* 19% of women who are sexually active between the ages of 15 and 19 become pregnant each year.
34% of women get pregnant at least once before the age of 20.
* The United States teen pregnancy rate has declined 28% between 1990 and 2000.
* 78% of teen pregnancies are unplanned.
* Teen pregnancies are much higher in the United States than any other developed country-double that of Canada and at least four times France and Germany.
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