Fewer U.S. teens are giving birth
Fewer U.S. teens are giving birth, CDC finds Fewer teens than ever are giving birth in the United States, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The finding is part of a larger trend of women having babies later in life, as birth rates continue to increase among women in their 30s and 40s. The study found that just shy of 230,000 girls age 15 to 19 gave birth in 2015, or 22 for every 1,000 teens, which was an 8% decrease from 2014. The birth rate in this age group has been falling sharply since 2007, and between 2013 and 2014, there was a record decrease of 9%. Even though the decrease in teen births between 2014 and 2015 does not appear to be quite as large as between 2013 and 2014, it is “still quite impressive,” said Brady E. Hamilton, a statistician and demographer at the National Center for Health Statistics who is lead author of the study. Since 2007, the year-to-year decline in teen birth rates has been between 7% and 9%, which is...