Teen Birth Rates. Not Good Numbers.

U.S. teen birth rate up again, fewer pre-term babies {Excerpt}
Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:28pm EDT
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. teen birth rate rose for a second straight year in 2007 after a long decline and more babies were born to all mothers than even at the peak of the baby boom after World War Two......In an encouraging development, the rate of premature births and low birthweight babies declined after a long upward trend, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. But Cesarean deliveries rose for an 11th straight year to a new high -- up 2 percent to 31.8 percent of births.
A record 39.7 percent of babies in 2007 were born to unmarried women, including 71.6 percent of black babies and 51.3 percent of Hispanic babies, the report found. The birth rate for teenage girls rose 5 percent between 2005 and 2007, according to the report.
The previously reported increase in 2006 ended 14 straight years of declines. The rate rose again in 2007 by 1 percent over the prior year to 42.5 births per 1,000 girls aged 15-19.....
....The total of 4.3 million babies born in 2007 was the most ever recorded in the United States, topping even the peak of the baby boom in 1957, according to the report.....

Link. http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE52H67H20090318?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0

My Comment: I don't have the answers but children having children is never a good thing.

*Long three children (a boy 18, two girls 15, 13)