Pregnancy News - TV starâ€s pregnancy prompts teen talks (Rapid City Journal)

The United States has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates and births in the western industrialized world, according to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. While teen pregnancy rates have dropped slightly, Ermish believes the drop isn’t significant and doesn’t show progress on the issue. She believes that teens remain uninformed when it comes to teen pregnancy and the realities of teen parenthood. Catholic Social Services counselor Kay Ermish and her daughter Alyssa, 14, openly discussed Jamie Lynn Spears� pregnancy and hope that other mothers and daughters do as well. read more

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