After declining in 1991-2005, the US teen birth rate climbed in 2006 and 2007, HealthDay News reports. Crunching numbers from 2002-07, the Centers for Disease Control found a number of trends had flatlined or worsened after a period of improvement.
- 2004 saw 745,000 pregnancies among females under 20, including 16,000 among girls 10 to 14 years old.
- One-third of adolescents had no birth-control education before age 18.