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Teen births rise

Posted December 6th, 2007 by Tara Murray in Families, Fertility, US Demography

After 14 years of decline, the teen birth rate increased significantly between 2005 and 2006, according to the National Center for Health Statistics (Washington Post).  The statistics are included in a new NCHS report, Births: Preliminary Data for 2006.

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