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Fabio Goveia According to National School Boards Association, these are facts that local school administrators, parents, and school board members need to recognize:
- while the teenage pregnancy rate has declined in the United States in the last ten years, the United States still has a teen rate that is significantly higher than other industrialized countries;
- over half a million teens between 15 and 19 years of age give birth each year in the United States;
- the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the United States remain among poor young women of color;
- teen mothers are significantly more likely to have been abused as young children;
- teens are more likely to be physically abused during pregnancy than adult women;
- teen pregnancy costs the United States over $7 billion each year; and
- only one-third of teen mothers will complete high school.
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