A companion newsletter, InSites, focuses on work in specific places to highlight successful strategies on behalf of children and families. Summer 2001 issue . Although 82 percent of adults support required sex education programs in school, only 19 states and the District of Columbia direct their schools to provide such programs. This question was asked only of students who reported ever having had sexual intercourse. This information is available only for 20 states and the District of Columbia.
Data reflect the mother s place of residence rather than the place where the birth occurred.
This measure of teenage childbearing focuses on the fertility of all females ages 15-17, regardless of marital status. 46, No. 11, Supplement 2. 1991 and 1996 displays in the first two columns the number of births to teenagers between ages 15 and 19 per 1,000 females in this age group for both 1991 and 1996, total and separately for non-Hispanic whites, blacks, and Hispanics. Rates for blacks include a small number of Hispanic blacks. Persons of Hispanic origin can be of any race.