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  • Roe v. Wade in Peril
  • COVID-19 impact
  • Reproductive Health Impact Study
  • Adding It Up
  • Abortion Worldwide
  • Guttmacher-Lancet Commission
  • U.S. policy resources
  • State policy resources
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  • International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Global

  • Abortion
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  • Pregnancy
  • Teens

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United States Teens

Teen Pregnancy

Although teen pregnancy rates have declined in recent decades, the U.S. rate is still one of the highest in the developed world. By tracking the changing health care landscape and providing quality data and policy analysis, the Guttmacher Institute strives to shed light on U.S. teen pregnancy and on the social and economic factors that contribute to it. Guttmacher promotes policies and programs to enable teens to avoid unintended pregnancy.

  • Teen Pregnancy
  • State Policies on Teens
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    Pregnancies, Births and Abortions in the United States, 1973–2017: National and State Trends by Age

  • Blog / Letter / Op-ed

    Age is More Than a Number: High Infant Mortality Among Births to Teen Mothers

  • Fact Sheet

    Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in the United States

Top Facts & Statistics

  • 75%

    of pregnancies among 15-19-year-olds are unplanned
  • 18

    average age at first sex in the United States
  • 73%

    how much higher the pregnancy rate among 15-19-year-olds would have been without publicly funded family planning

Resources

  • June 2019 Policy Analysis

    Promiscuity Propaganda: Access to Information and Services Does Not Lead to Increases in Sexual Activity

    Joerg Dreweke,Guttmacher Policy Review

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • HIV & STIs
    • Pregnancy
    • Teens
  • May 2019 Policy Analysis

    State and Federal Lawmakers Promote Sexual Consent, LGBTQ+ Inclusivity in Sex Education

    Elizabeth Nash, Leah H. Keller and Sophia Naide

    United States

    • Teens
  • April 2019 Research Article

    Sex Before Age 13 Among Males in the United States

    Laura D. Lindberg, Isaac Maddow-Zimet and Arik V. Marcell,Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

    United States

    • Teens
  • April 2019 News Release

    Young Men’s Reports of Having Sex Before Age 13 Vary Widely by Their Race, Ethnicity and Geographic Area

    United States

    • Teens
  • August 2018 News Release

    Improvements in Contraceptive Use Continue to Drive Declines in Pregnancy Among U.S. Adolescents

    United States

    • Contraception
    • Teens
  • August 2018 Research Article

    Changing Patterns of Contraceptive Use and the Decline in Rates of Pregnancy and Birth Among U.S. Adolescents, 2007–2014

    Laura D. Lindberg, John S. Santelli and Sheila Desai,Journal of Adolescent Health

    United States

    • Contraception
    • Teens
  • May 2018 Blog / Letter / Op-ed

    The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Was on the Right Track, Now It’s Being Dismantled

    Jesseca Boyer,Health Affairs Blog

    United States

    • Teens
  • May 2018 News in Context

    The Trump Administration’s Irresponsible Use of Research in Pushing Its Abstinence-Only Agenda into Title X

    Laura D. Lindberg and Kinsey Hasstedt

    United States

    • Contraception
    • HIV & STIs
    • Teens
  • April 2018 Fact Sheet

    State Facts on Publicly Funded Family Planning Services

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • Pregnancy
    • Teens
  • February 2018 Policy Analysis

    New Name, Same Harm: Rebranding of Federal Abstinence-Only Programs

    Jesseca Boyer,Guttmacher Policy Review

    United States

    • HIV & STIs
    • Teens

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School-based health centers can play a key role in addressing unplanned teen pregnancy, and failing to provide contraceptive services on-site, for whatever reason, is self-defeating. We know contraception has been the main driver of the steep decline in the U.S. pregnancy rate among 15-19-year-olds, which is why it’s so important to give students easy access to the information and services they need

Heather D. Boonstra

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