National Day To Prevent Teen Pregnancy
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National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Why a National Day? Since the early 1990s, the teen pregnancy rate has declined 38 percent and the teen birth rate has declined 32%. In fact, few social problems have improved quite as dramatically over the past decade plus. The most recent news on this front, however, has not been positive. According to data released in March 2009 by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the U.S. teen birth rate increased for the second year in a row since 2005. These increases follow 14 years of continuous decline in the teen birth rate. That is, after declining 34% between 1991 and 2005, the teen birth rate has now increased 5% between 2005 and 2007.
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National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Hundreds of thousands of teens nationwide are expected to participate in the seventh annual National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy on May 6, 2009. The purpose of the National Day is to focus the attention of teens on the importance of avoiding too-early pregnancy and parenthood.
On the National Day, teens nationwide are asked to go to www.startswiththefamily.org and take a short, scenario-based "quiz" that asks young people what they would do in a number of sexual situations. It Starts With the Family has agreed to help make sure that the 2009 National Day is a success.
Organized by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, the National Day has widespread support. More than 200 national organizations and media outlets serve as official National Day partners by promoting the online quiz.
The message of the National Day is straightforward: Sex has consequences. The online quiz (available in English and Spanish) delivers this message directly to teens and challenges them to think carefully about what they might do "in the moment."
Last year, more than 300,000 individuals took the online National Day Quiz. A survey of the some of the teens that participated in the 2008 National Day indicates:
73% said the Quiz made them think about what they might do in such situations;
54% said the Quiz made the risks of sex and teen pregnancy seem more real to them;
57% said some of the situations in the Quiz were things that they or their friends had faced;
55% said they'd talk to their friends about the situations described in the Quiz; and
51% said the Quiz made them think about things they hadn't thought about before.
On the National Day, teens nationwide are asked to go to www.startswiththefamily.org and take a short, scenario-based "quiz" that asks young people what they would do in a number of sexual situations. It Starts With the Family has agreed to help make sure that the 2009 National Day is a success.
Organized by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, the National Day has widespread support. More than 200 national organizations and media outlets serve as official National Day partners by promoting the online quiz.
The message of the National Day is straightforward: Sex has consequences. The online quiz (available in English and Spanish) delivers this message directly to teens and challenges them to think carefully about what they might do "in the moment."
Last year, more than 300,000 individuals took the online National Day Quiz. A survey of the some of the teens that participated in the 2008 National Day indicates:
73% said the Quiz made them think about what they might do in such situations;
54% said the Quiz made the risks of sex and teen pregnancy seem more real to them;
57% said some of the situations in the Quiz were things that they or their friends had faced;
55% said they'd talk to their friends about the situations described in the Quiz; and
51% said the Quiz made them think about things they hadn't thought about before.
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