TOP 10 STATES WITH HIGHEST TEEN PREGNANCY BIRTH RATE 2013

By EditorALW

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The study focused on 1,000 pregnant teens aged 15-19 per state. The following data is based on teen pregnancy birth rate report that was recently made available by the Guttmacher report.

1. Mississippi – 64/1,000
Sex education wasn’t high on the priority list in Mississippi. But lawmakers in this number one state with the highest teen pregnancy birth rate have allowed not only sex education in schools, but abstinence classes as well.

2. New Mexico – 61/1,000
New Mexico also ranks in the top 50 when it comes to poverty and crime. While you can’t solely blame poverty and crime for teens getting pregnant, they are definitely contributing factors.

3. Texas – 61/1,000
Star state high teen pregnancy birth rate. According to the Pregnancy Resource Center, 30 pregnant teens come in per month.

4. Arkansas – 60/1,000
In the south many of the sex-education programs are abstinence-based due to the high pregnancy rates. Teens don’t need to be told what not to do, but need more preventative options.

5. Oklahoma – 58/1,000
Oklahoma ranks ninth in highest teen pregnancy rates and a few spots higher in number of births.

6. Arizona – 54/1,000
Pregnancy rates have actually gone down in the desert state. According to the government report from 2007-2010, rates have gone down 29 percent. The decline is attributed to prevention programs.

7. Louisiana – 54/1,000
This southern state is so fed up with teen pregnancy, that some schools have even banned teens from attending classes if they become pregnant.

8. Kentucky 53/1,000
Initiatives put into placed has slowed down this state’s teen pregnancy rate, but According to data released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Kentucky remains 10 points over the national rate.

9. Tennessee – 52/1,000
While the nation was buzzing about the 17 teens that got pregnant at the same time in Massachusetts, a whopping 90 teens in both middle and high school combined got pregnant in Tennessee.

10. South Carolina – 51/1,000
Reportedly, the state’s tax payers had to shell out $197 million annually for these births.

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