The medical science report of the hour talks about how many teenagers are teenagers. It’s not a happy statistic, that the number of teenage mothers has increased in the United States. The Associated Press article, though, has an interesting touch on the facts:
The teen increase was based on the 15-19 age group, which accounted for about 99 percent of the more than 440,000 births to teens in 2006.”
— Report: U.S. Teen Birth Rate on the Rise
The remaining 1 percent would appear to come from the 13-14 age group. After that, we’re plumb out of teenagers.
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