A study released this week found that teen pregnancy rates are dropping faster in Canada than they are in the United States. From 1996 to 2006, rates fell by nearly 37 percent in Canada, and 25 percent in America.
Like [Alex] McKay, [Louise] Moody believes falling teen pregnancy rates are a result of better-informed young people making smarter choices about sex, but they also reflect young women who see a future for themselves that might include something other than motherhood, she says.
In her experience, many of the young women who choose to become parents aren’t following the ‘traditional trajectory’ through school to a career, she says, and they often lack role-models or stable homes. [Source: CanWest News Service]
According to the same study, teen birth rates fell in England and Sweden as well, but the declines were not as significant. Of course,teen pregnancy remains a persistent problem in all of the nations involved in the study.
Posted By: Stefanie Hamilton
