EDUCATION HELPS LOWER UNINTENDED
PREGNANCY
Achieving universal primary education (MDG 2) and eliminating
gender disparity at all education levels (a target under MDG 3) are
international development goals that can help break the vicious
cycle of poverty that traps so many women throughout the world.
The benefits of girls’ education for the individual, family, community,
and country are widely documented.31 Fewer unintended
pregnancies are an additional benefit of greater educational
attainment: More-educated women generally marry and begin
their childbearing later than those who are less educated; they
tend to know more about family planning, including where to
obtain family planning services. As a result, they are less likely to
have an unplanned pregnancy