Teenage Birth Rates Higher In More Religious States
September 17, 2009 by admin
Rates of births to teenage mothers are strongly predicted by conservative religious beliefs, even after controlling for differences in income and rates of abortion. Researchers writing in BioMed Central’s open access journal Reproductive Health have found a strong association between teenage birth rates and state-level measures of religiosity in the U.S.
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