When I was growing up in South Texas, I lived in a region where teenage pregnancy ran rampant. In fact, my childhood friend and next door neighbor had three children by the time she graduated from high school. The mere fact that I graduated high school without getting knocked up was room for celebration and [...]

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Trends in the use of contraceptives in teens are not quite going in the direction that health experts would like.  Recently, a survey was taken of teenagers in New Hampshire in order to find out more about their behaviors.  Sex and the use of contraceptives was not the only subject focused upon by the survey, [...]

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Great Britain has the highest teen pregancy rate in all of Europe; in 2002 alone, almost 40,000 pregnancies were reported.  Much like in America, which also has a high teen pregnancy rate, debate has arisen about what to do about this problem, resulting in two sides, one which wants abstinence-only teaching in schools, and one [...]

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