General Article Being a teenage parent

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The statistics

Teenage pregnancy is a social issue that often hits the headlines but, despite growing concern, conception rates in the UK have been steadily declining over the past few years. The under-18 conception rate in the UK for 2010 was the lowest since comparable records began in 1969 at 35.5 conceptions per 1,000 women aged 15- to 17-years-old. In 2010, there was also a 6.8% decline in the number of conceptions to girls under 16 from 2009, and the under-20s was the only age group wh...

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