| Though, the age of women is enduring to decrease, as | | | | pregnant .The pregnancy rate for adolescents 13 to 19 |
| younger women look for to conclude pregnancies. | | | | years of age fell 19 percent from 116 per 1,000 in 1991 |
| Statistics are instructive that the average age of those | | | | to 95.3 in 1997, reversing a 12 percent rise from 1986 |
| receiving abortions is dropping from 19 to 17. Teen | | | | to 1994.From 1995 to 1997, the pregnancy rate for 13- |
| abortion facts also expose that though the teen | | | | to 19-year-olds decreased in 41 of the 43 reported |
| pregnancy rate has declined in the United States over | | | | geographic areas for which age-specific data were |
| the last ten years, the percentages have really greater | | | | available. |
| than before. Recent information are reporting that over | | | | During 1995 to 1997, the pregnancy rate declined by |
| 50% performed annually are on women under the age | | | | 11.5 percent among females less than 15 years of age, |
| of twenty-five with the ages of eighteen and nineteen | | | | by 10.8 percent among females 15 to 17 years of age, |
| accounting for the highest number performed. | | | | and by 5.9 percent among females 16 to 19 years of |
| A disorder called Post Traumatic Stress is disease | | | | age . |
| millions of teenagers who are not psychologically | | | | For each year from 1995 to 1997, the pregnancy rate |
| steady enough to survive with the trauma associated | | | | for females 15 to 19 years of age was approximately |
| with an unplanned pregnancy, life-altering decisions, and | | | | 2.6 times that of females 15 to 17 years of age, and |
| the devastation of life. After the surgical procedure, | | | | the rate for females less than 15 years of age was |
| guiltiness, shame, inconsistent behaviors, and substance | | | | approximately one ninth that of females 14 to 17 years |
| abuse, even suicide, can be end result. | | | | of age. From 1995 to 1997, the national number of |
| Pregnancy, birth, and abortion rates among teenagers | | | | pregnancies among females 14 to 19 years of age |
| in the United States have turn down over the past | | | | declined by 3.3 percent. In 1996, the pregnancy rate for |
| decade but at a standstill remain a widespread public | | | | females 15 to 19 years of age in the United States |
| health issue. | | | | was 83.8 per 1,000 compared to |
| Reasons for the decline include increased motivation | | | | PREGNANCY RISKS AND OUTCOMES |
| of adolescence to achieve higher levels of education, | | | | 95 percent of adolescence believes that if they were |
| the availability of widespread sexuality education in | | | | occupied in a pregnancy they would stay in school; in |
| schools, leading to immature people's knowledge about | | | | reality, 72 percent eventually complete high school 74. |
| contraception, more effective contraceptive use, and | | | | 50 percent of adolescence thinks that if they were |
| improved ability to discuss contraceptive practice; and | | | | occupied in a pregnancy they would marry the mother |
| greater community sustain for services related to both | | | | father; in actuality, 82 percent of teenage births are to |
| pregnancy and disease prevention among teenagers. | | | | unmarried teens75. 26 percent of adolescence thinks |
| PREGNANCY | | | | that they would need benefit to support a child; in |
| Although pregnancy rates among teenagers have | | | | reality 57 percent receive public support to cover the |
| steadily turned down in the past decade, the United | | | | cost of delivery and 26 percent of teen mothers |
| States continues to have the highest teenager | | | | receive public support by their early twenties77. 32 |
| pregnancy rates among industrialized nations. | | | | percent of adolescence says they would believe an |
| Each year in United States, 800,100 to 900,100 | | | | abortion; in reality, 52 percent of pregnancies to |
| adolescents 19 years of age or younger become | | | | unmarried teens end in abortion. |