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6. Births to Adolescents
6. Births to Adolescents
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Also included are data on prenatal care among adolescent mothers and infant mortality rates for babies born to adolescent mothers. In the following tables, the data on births to adolescents are from the National Vital Statistics and the 1980 National Natality Survey.
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See table 6.2 for data concerning the changes in births relative to the population of young women.
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The birth rates for teens aged 10 to 14 are low and remained fairly stable throughout this period. However, for black teenagers th, s age, the birth rate has been at least seven times higher than the rate for white teenagers in all years.
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Data are from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
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A-110 / 462 TABLE 6.4 Birth Rates For Unmarried Women by Age of Mother and Race of Child: United States, 1970-84 (rates are live births to unmarried women per 1,000 unmarried women in specif fed group, estimated as of July 1) Age of Mothe r 15-19 Years Years and 15-17 18-l' Race of Child Total Years Years All Races 1984 30.2 21.9 43.0 1983 29.7 22.1 41.0 1982 28.9 21.5 40.2 1981 28.2 20.9 39.9 1980 27.6 20.6 39.0 1979 26.4 19.9 37.2 1978 24.9 19.1 35.1 1977 25.1 19.8 34.6 1976 23.7 19.0 32.1 1975 23.9 19.3 32.5 1974 23.0 18.8 31.2 1973 22.7 18.7 30.4 1972 22.8 18.5 30.9 1971 22.3 17.5 31.7 la70 22.4 17.1 32.9 white .
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Reported of Natality Statistics 1984, Monthly Vital Statistics Report, Vol 35, No.
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For nonwhite and black unmarried women, the birth rates fell from 90.8 to 78.3 and 96.9 to 87.1 births per 1,000 unmarried women, decreases of 14 and 11 percent respectively. Despite this trend, there were consistently more out-of-wedlock births per 1,000 unmarried nonwhite teenage women than per 1, 000 white women.
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Among black teenagers, 78 percent of those under age 15 and 62 percent of those aged 15 to 19 did not report the age of the father of their child. These data are f rom the National Center for Health Statist ics (NCHS)
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6 . Data are f ram the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
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There were 39,712 births to mothers of Mexican origin aged 15 to 19 compared to 7,112 births to Puerto Rican mothers aged 15 to 19, 2,930 births to Central and South American mothers aged 15 to 19 and 766 to Cuban mothers aged 15 to 19. B irths to women under age 20 constituted 17 percent of births to all Hispanic origin mothers compared to 13 .2 percent of births to nonHispanic mothers in these states.
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In addition, H ispanic women aged 15 to 19 accounted for 18 percent of all nonmar ital births in this age group. Overall, out-of-wedlock births to non-Hispanic women aged 15 to 19 accounted for a slightly larger proportion of all out-of-wedlock births among non-Hispanics than among Hispanics, 33.7 percent compared to 29.1 pe rcent respect ively.
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Forrest, "The Need for Prenatal Care in the United States: Evidence from the 1980 National Natality Survey", Family Planning Perspectives, Vol.
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Black mothers under age 20 were the most likely to receive inadequate prenatal care, 12.8 percent compared to ll.9 percent of Hispanic and 8.3 percent of white mothers, even though Hispanic mothers of other ages were more likely than black or white women to receive inadequate care. Also, unmarried mothers of all ages were more likely than marr fed mothers to have had inadequate prenatal care.
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9 108, 901 35-39 years 3,878 10.6 36,509 40-44 years 680 11.6 5, 872 45-49 years 37 11.9 313 Black All ages 73,178 12.4 592, 745 Under 15 years 891 15.6 5, 720 15-19 years 18,147 13.5 134, 392 15 years 1, 501 14.1 10, 637 16 years 2, 678 14.0 19,158 17 years 3,703 13.7 27,112 18 years 4,782 13.4 35,656 19 years 5,483 13.1 41,829 20-24 years 24, 699 12.2 203, 562 25-29 years 17,231 11.7 147,111 30-34 years 8, 640 11.7 73, 858 3S-39 years 3, 018 12.6 24, 028 40-44 years S30 13.6 3, 906 4S-49 years 22 13.1 168 1Less than 2, 500 grams. Sources: NCHS, "Advanced Final Natality by Statistics, 1983", Monthly Vital Statistics Report, Vol.
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In general, mothers less than age 20 and aged 40 to 49 were more likely than women aged 20 to 39 to have babies with low birth weights. Over 13 percent of the babies born to women under age 15 had low birth rates, more than 9 percent of those born to women aged 15 to 19, 8.3 percent of those born to women aged 40 to 44, and almost 10 percent born to women aged 45 to 49.
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Single years of age refer to the midpoints in the age intervals, e.g., 15 means 15.5 years. Source: Special tabulations from the 1982 National Survey of Family Growth, conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, DHHS.
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The estimated proportion of women having a first birth before age 20 was the highest for Hispanic women, 47.0 percent, compared to 39.8 percent for black women and 13.2 percent for white women. Most of these births occur at ages 18 and 19.
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Note: Sample is limited to respondents age 20 and over at 1983 survey date. Source: Special Tabulations from the 1983 National Longitidunal Survey of Youth, Center for Human Resource Research, Ohio State University.
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Also, blacks were more likely than whites or Hispanics to report a f irst birth by age 20 regardless of their mother's education. In general, however' adolescent males whose mothers had less than high school educations were more likely to have child by age 20 than those whose mother' s education was high school or more .
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1960 Study Of Infant Mortality From Linked Records And 1980 National Natality Survey/National Death Index (NNS/NDI ~ 1960 Study of of L inked Records Age of Mother Rate 1980 NNS/NDI Standard Percent Rate Er ror Dec. 1 ine Under 20 years 33.1 17.4 2.4 47.4 20-24 24.2 12.5 1.3 48.3 25-29 22.4 9.8 1.3 56.3 30-34 23.7 14.7 2.5 38.0 35+ years 26.7 18.4*
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These data indicate that in 1960 mothers under age 20 had the highest infant mortality rate, 33.1 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. In 1980, the infant mortality rate for mothers under age 20 was 17.4 deaths per 1,000 births, a 47.4 percent decline.
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