It’s happening all across the country. According to Brigid McKeon of Advocates for Youth, U.S. teens experience as many as 850,000 pregnancies a year. Along with that, McKeon states that youths under age 25 experience 9.1 million STIs (McKeon). In 2013, it was reported by the CDC that a total of 273,105 babies were born to mothers aged 15-19 (“About Teen Pregnancy”). The National Conference for State Legislatures says that one in four girls will become pregnant at least once before the age of twenty (“State Policies on Sex Education”). If you do the math, that’s four girls in this
It’s happening all across the country. According to Brigid McKeon of Advocates for Youth, U.S. teens experience as many as 850,000 pregnancies a year. Along with that, McKeon states that youths under age 25 experience 9.1 million STIs (McKeon). In 2013, it was reported by the CDC that a total of 273,105 babies were born to mothers aged 15-19 (“About Teen Pregnancy”). The National Conference for State Legislatures says that one in four girls will become pregnant at least once before the age of twenty (“State Policies on Sex Education”). If you do the math, that’s four girls in this