Teenage pregnancies in Chicago was less. This was yesterday, Sunday, was announced by mayor Rahm Emanuel.
According to Emmanuel, the most recent statistics on ppodrostkovoy pregnancy – for 2014. Only 32 children were born per thousand girls aged 15 to 19 years.
This is almost 62% less than in 1999, when the figure was 85 per thousand teenagers. With regard to the ethnic indicators in 2010 72 girls out of every thousand African-American-Teens were pregnant.
«This is an important step in the right direction. Every teenager in this town deserves to receive an education and everything you need to later make a conscious choice», — quotes the Emanuel’s Chicago Suntimes.
Early pregnancy problem especially for the adolescents themselves. According to statistics, only 38% of teenage mothers finish school, and less than 2% have a higher education up to 30 years.
We will remind, in may the Chicago Department of public health launched the second stage of the campaign «Chicago uses condoms», which aims to educate Teens about safe sex and unplanned pregnancies.
But despite the reduction in the rate of teen pregnancies in Chicago more than the national average, the statement said the mayor.
