Teen Pregnancy: It's Everyone's Problem
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Teen Years Are For
Planning Your Future
NOT
For Having a Baby

Teen pregnancy is a problem that affects the parents, the baby, other family members, and community resources.

The Facts
  • A teen girl is much more likely to become pregnant if her sexual partner is significantly older than she is.
  • Teens who become pregnant are LESS likely to:
    • finish high school
    • get vital prenatal care
  • Teens who become pregnant are MORE likely to:
    • live in poverty
    • be single parents
    • to divorce if they do marry
    • have low birth weight babies
    • have babies with birth defects
    • have babies who die before age 1
    • abuse or neglect their babies
    • have another baby within 2 years

     Birth rates for ages 15-19 years:

     2001: 46.8
     2002: 49.3
     2003: 41.0
     2004: 37.9
     2005: 43.9
     2006: 45.6
     2007: 38.3

      (live births per 1,000 females in Sutter County)

THE BEST WAY TO AVOID TEEN PREGNANCY IS TO
AVOID HAVING SEX DURING THE TEEN YEARS

How can teens be helped to do that?

Additional Links
For Teens and Parents For Professionals
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