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Teen Birth Rates at Historic Low

Fell 8 percent in one year

Reason Staff | 2.11.2013 2:52 PM

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Teenage birth rates fell 8 percent in a single year, from 2010 to 2011, new data shows. Adolescent births are now down 25 percent since 2007 and 49 percent since 1991, the National Center for Health Statistics reported Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

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