Rates of adolescent pregnancy in Latin America number over a million each year.
It's the cumulative bill we pay for adolescent pregnancy.
"The response to adolescent pregnancy is not more birth control," she says.
The problems created by adolescent pregnancy and early marriage are indeed set forth here, sometimes with the appearance of great candor.
As a result, more girls stayed in school and adolescent pregnancies declined.
It found that childhood sexual abuse has a "significant association" with adolescent pregnancy.
Many special health, education and training programs are limited to communities where there is a high incidence of adolescent pregnancy.
We're also getting ready to create a program to help prevent adolescent pregnancy.
Up to two-thirds of adolescent pregnancies occur in teens age 18 - 19 years old.
Now, it has the lowest rate of adolescent pregnancy in the nation.