How about some good news for a change: The U.S. teen birth rate (that is, rate of women age 19 or less who have babies) has fallen by more than half in a decade and by two-thirds – two-thirds! – since it peaked in 1991.
Nobody’s entirely sure why, but this Vox piece looks at three options: better birth control, less lead in the environment, and MTV.
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