Friday, June 10, 2011

The Cost of Teenage Pregnancy

If you enjoy learning about teen pregnancy prevention, check out The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy's blog called "Pregnant Pause".

Today, the National Campaign posted about how much teen childbearing costs us in public spending. Would you believe that as a nation we are spending 10.9 million dollars on teen pregnancy? And this does not include the cost of what we spend to assist teen parents in child-rearing.

It would cost us less money to fund more comprehensive sexuality health education programs, which would reduce the number of teen pregnancies. What can we do to convince our government that sex ed programs are valuable to everybody?

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