What’s behind the falling Latino teen birth rates?
By Drew Desilver, Pew Research Center
For Hispanic teens, behavior may be aligning more closely with their views of teen pregnancy. A 2009 Pew Research survey found that Hispanics ages 16 to 19 took a dim view of people their age having children: Three-quarters called teen pregnancies “a bad thing for society,” and seven in ten (69%) agreed that becoming a teen parent prevents people from reaching their goals in life. (Among young adults, ages 18 to 25, 76% of Hispanics called teen pregnancies bad for society, versus 90% of all 18- to 25-year-olds.)
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