Overall Birth Rates Drop As America's Economy Bites

The percentage of teenage girls in the USA getting pregnant to full term has dropped to a record low in 2010, a new report issued by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), titled "Births: Preliminary Data for 2010," informed this week, as did the birth rate for most females of reproductive age. In 2010 the teenage birth rate rate fell to 34.2 births per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19 years; 9% lower than the year before. 2010 had the lowest rate since records becan seven decades ago...

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