01-16-2017, 03:35 PM
(01-16-2017, 02:12 PM)flbones too Wrote: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr66/nvsr66_01.pdfOf course, in 1957, what was different is that most of those teenage pregnant women were 18- and 19-year-olds who were married to their high school sweethearts working at the GM factory. That was considered normal that that day and age.
Back in 1957, during the peak of the baby boom, almost one in ten teenage girl was pregnant. For women in their early 20s, that figure was over 1/4 and as high as almost 1/3 in some states.