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Gift of Love: California Helps Curb Teen Pregnancy

Published on: February 04, 2014

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Left photo:  California contingent of  The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy poses in front of the Capitol.

California’s come a long way, baby! In the early 1990s its teen pregnancy rate was the highest in the nation. 15 years later by 2005  the rate had been cut in half to an all-time low. Its teen pregnancy rate decline was the most of any state (national decline was 37% over the same period.)  Californians “just said no” to the federal program to promote abstinence which didn’t work and instead, tried something else…read more>

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