21st+Century+Project.

21st Century Project My 21st Century Project is about Teen Pregnancy. I felt like it’s a good subject to see and study it. Some questions I wanted to gather from this topic is, how many teens have before they’re 20? Do they keep their babies? How many teens get a disease when they’re pregnant? Which race has the highest percentage of getting pregnant? I found the answer to my first question on the website US Teen Sexual Activity. It stated that, by the age of 15. 13% of teens have vaginal sex. 7 out 10 teens have sex before their 19th birthday. My answer to my second question is nearly a third of pregnant teens choose abortion. 29% are terminated by abortion. Some ask questions like do I want this baby? Can I afford to raise a child? How will it impact my life? Am I ready to be a mother? The third question was what percentage of teens get pregnant? The answer is about 34% become pregnant before they are 20 years of age. It’s about 820,000 people a year. The answer to the forth question is 4 million teens contract a STD each year. For my last question is the most important question to me. Which race has the highest percentage of getting pregnant? The answer is black teens have the highest teen pregnancy rate. For young women age 15-19, black teens are most likely to become pregnant (134 per 1,000 women). Slightly lower rates occur among Hispanics (3131 per 1,000) followed by non Hispanics whites (48 per 1,000).

In 1990 the estimate 166.9 per 1,000 an all time birth rate of 61.8 per 1,000 in 1991. By 2002 the rate had dropped by 75.4 per 1,000 = 36%. 3% increased in the years of 2005 and 2006.