Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Since 1991, U.S. teenage pregnancy, abortion, and birth
rates have declined steadily in every age and racial/ethnic group. Teenage
birth rates declined in every state as well as in the District of Columbia
and the Virgin Islands. Research indicates that sexually active
teens are becoming more effective users of contraception and that more
teens are choosing to remain abstinent during early and middle adolescence. Nevertheless,
the United States continues to have higher rates of teen pregnancy, birth,
and abortion than other industrialized nations. Teens ages 18 and
19 account for as much as 66 percent of U.S. teen births. Most
teenage mothers come from socially and/or economically disadvantaged
backgrounds and adolescent motherhood often compounds this disadvantage.
Click below for more information:
Advocates' Publications
on Teen Pregnancy Prevention:
- Adolescents and Abortion (The Facts) [html] [pdf]
- Adolescent Childbearing and Educational Economic Attainment (The Facts) [html]
- Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing in the United States (The Facts) [html] [pdf]
- Building Local Coalitions to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (From Research to Practice) [html]
- Child Sexual Abuse II: A Risk Factor for HIV/STDs and Teen Pregnancy (The Facts) [html]
- Communities Responding to the Challenge of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
- Volume I: Mobilizing for Action [pdf]
- Volume II: Building Strong Foundations, Ensuring the Future [pdf]
- Volume III: Designing Effective Family Life Education Programs [pdf]
- Volume IV: Improving Contraceptive Access for Teens [pdf]
- en español—Mejora del acceso de los adolescentes a los métodos anticonceptivos (Las comunidades responden al desafío de la prevención del embarazo de adolescentes, Volumen IV) [pdf]
- Volume V: Linking Pregnancy Prevention to Youth Development [pdf]
- Components of Promising Teens Pregnancy Prevention Programs (Issues at a Glance) [html]
- Creating Successful Public Education Campaigns to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and HIV (From Research to Practice) [html]
- NEW! Curriculum Controversy: Lessons from the Field (Strategies for Organizational Success) [html] [pdf]
- NEW! Ensuring Organizational Sustainability: A Guide for State Teen Pregnancy Prevention Organizations (Strategies for Organizational Success) [html] [pdf]
- NEW! Hot Potatoes: Keeping Cool in the Midst of Controversy (Strategies for Organizational Success) [html] [pdf]
- NEW! Institutionalizing and Sustaining Support for Science-Based Approaches: A Guide for State Teen Pregnancy Prevention Organizations (Strategies for Organizational Success) [html] [pdf]
- Integrating Efforts to Prevent HIV, Other Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Pregnancy among Teens (Issues at Glance) [html] [pdf]
- Integrating Efforts to Prevent HIV, Other STIs, and Pregnancy among Teens in Developing Countries: Three Case Studies (Issues at Glance) [html] [pdf]
- Integrating Efforts to Prevent HIV, Other STIs, and Pregnancy among Teens in Minnesota (Issues at Glance) [html] [pdf]
- NEW! Managing Controversy in Pressure Cooker Situations (Strategies for Organizational Success) [html] [pdf]
- National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month (NTPPM) Planning Guidebook [guidebook pdf] [sample materials pdf]
- Pregnancy and Childbearing Among Younger Teens (The Facts) [html]
- Science and Success in Developing Countries: Holistic Programs That Work to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, HIV & Sexually Transmitted Infections [full study report html] [full study report pdf]
- Science-Based Practices: A Guide for State Teen Pregnancy Prevention Organizations (From Research to Practice) [html] [pdf]
- Science-Based Practices in Teen Pregnancy and HIV/STI Prevention: Selected Annotated Bibliography (From Research to Practice) [html] [pdf]
- NEW! The Seven Components of Organizational Sustainability: A Guide for State Teen Pregnancy Prevention Organizations [html] [pdf]
- Teenage Pregnancy, The Case for Prevention [html] [pdf]
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