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What Is to Be Done about the Rise in Teen Childbearing?
Journal of Adolescent HealthVol. 45Issue 1p1–2Published in issue: July, 2009- Sarah S. Brown
- Katherine Suellentrop
Cited in Scopus: 5The article by Santelli and colleagues [1] in this issue of the Journal shines a spotlight on an enduring American challenge: adolescent childbearing. After well over a decade of progress, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that for the second year in a row, the nation's teen birth rate (TBR) increased. Between 2005 and 2006, a 3.5% increase was noted; for the 2006 to 2007 interval, the increase was 1.4%, suggesting that what began as a 1-year uptick may have become a trend.
