Teenage Pregnancy in Canada

Abstract

Teenage pregnancy is examined as one of the major trials to Canadian society. This application (a) recounts components assisting to teen pregnancy, (b) presents occurrence rates, (c) compares occurrence rates in the Canada to other nations, and (d) reconsiders significances of teen pregnancy. In supplement, the recount of research-based constituents of teen pregnancy avoidance programs is reviewed.(Turley,465)

Introduction

In 1976, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) described that the rate of pregnancy for 15- to 19-year-olds was 101.4 per 1,000 adolescents. This rate peaked in 1990, at 116.8 pregnancies per 1,000 adolescents. This entails that, in 1995, 12.7 per hundred of Canadian teenagers were with child in evaluation to 9.6 per hundred in 2005. Overall, about three-quarters of the million teens become with child over the one-year time span, and roughly 9 in 10 of these pregnancies are unintended. Between 6 and 7 out of 10 of these pregnancies end in birth, while about 4 in 10 end in abortion, and remainder end in spontaneous miscarriage.(Annie,45)

Discussion

Pregnancy rates have historic been higher amidst racial and ethnic few teens than amidst white teens. For demonstration, in 1995, the pregnancy rate for non-Hispanic white teens was 89.8 per 1,000 adolescents. In compare, it was more than 2.5 times as high for non-Hispanic blacks (at 232.7) and almost two times as high for Hispanics (at 167.4). Since 1990, rates have dropped for all groups; although, the rate for non-Hispanic blacks is still more than 2.5 times higher than for whites (138.9 vs. 49.0); and the rate for Hispanics, which has not turned down as rapidly, is likewise high (135.2).

Canadian teen pregnancy rates have historic been higher than those for other evolved countries. For demonstration, study undertook by the Alan Guttmacher Institute displays that, in the mid-1990s, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden had teen pregnancy rates in the variety of 30-35 per 1,000 adolescents. Also, Canada and England and Wales had rates in the variety of 85 per 1,000 adolescents. Part of the cause for higher pregnancy rates in the Canada is considered to be smaller grades of contraceptive use amidst teenagers in the Canada, possibly due to heritage norms and larger limits on access.(Turley,465)

Teen birth rates pursued the convention alike to that of pregnancy rates. However, after dropping 34 per hundred between 1991 and 2005, in 2006 birth rates for this age assembly increased by 4 percent. Trends by rush and Hispanic source diverse somewhat: 5 per hundred for non-Hispanic very dark teens, 3 per hundred for Hispanic teens, 5 per hundred for non-Hispanic white teenagers, and 4 per hundred for Native American teens, with no change for Asian teens. Race/ethnic dissimilarities in the likelihood of having the first birth by age 20 are furthermore significant; in 2006, 22 per hundred of non-Hispanic white teens had their first birth under age 20, in evaluation to 50 per hundred of non-Hispanic very dark teens and 65 per hundred of Hispanics.(Annie,45)

Even when the rate of teen beginnings turned down, the percentage of all teen beginnings that ...