Focused Efforts Contribute to the Decline of Teenage Pregnancy Each year in the United States approximately 40 percent of all girls become pregnant before the age of 20 (Statistics, no date, par. 6). According to Family Planning Perspectives this percentage is equivalent to around one million teenage pregnancies per year (as cited in Statistics, no date, par. 1). The Alan Guttmacher Institute says that of these one million pregnancies, 82 percent are unintended. Studies also indicate that women over the …showed first 75 words of 3319 total…

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