Why is Teen Pregnancy Declining?
In the past two decades, teenage birth rates in California have dropped by half – to a record low of 35.2 births per 1,000 teens, aged 15 to 19, said Emily Bazar, a senior writer for The California HealthCare Foundation’s Center for Health Reporting at USC. Without the decline, she said to the full house at downtown L.A.’s Artshare, “There would have been an additional 52,685 babies born in 2009 in California.” National rates are declining as well, but more slowly, Bazar noted. She joined sociologist Mark Regnerus, Valley …
