TEEN PREGNANCY OVERVIEW AND DISPARITIES
Approximately one third of teenaged females in the United States become pregnant1 and,once pregnant, are at increased risk of becoming pregnant again. Teenaged pregnancy and birth rates in the United States are high in comparison with other Western countries.2 Births to teens, particularly unintended nonmarital births, have far-reaching effects on both mothers and, perhaps even more dramatically, on their children. Minority youth