For the first time in 15 years, teen pregnancies ticked upward in 2006, according to a report from the National Institutes of Health. About 22 out of every 1,000 girls between the ages of 15 and 17 got pregnant that year, compared to 21 of every 1,000 in 2005. Experts don’t quite know what to make of the slight increase.
“It may be a blip in the data, and it may come down,” says Edward J. Sondik, director of the National Center for Health Statistics.
(CNN)
