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In 2008, 435,000 live births occurred to mothers aged 15–19 years, a birth rate of 41.5 per
1,000 women in this age group.1
Nearly two thirds of births to mothers younger than age 18
and more than half among mothers aged 18–19 years are unintended.2
Despite significant
and steady declines in teen birth rates in recent decades, this decrease appears to have
slowed recently, with rates increasing from 2005 to 2007, and then decreasing slightly in
2008. The U.S. teen pregnancy and birth, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and abortion
rates are substantially higher than those of other western industrialized nations.3
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