Almost 20 Percent of U.S. Teen Births Aren’t First Child
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Almost one-fifth of teenage mothers in the U.S. give birth to a second child before age 20, limiting the chances of finishing their educations or landing jobs, a government report said.
While teen birth rates have been falling in the U.S. for two decades, more than 367,000 girls ages 15 to 19 had children in 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report today. About 18 percent of those were repeat births, the Atlanta-based agency said.