Teenage Birth Rates Higher In More Religious States

Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 20:28 in Health & Medicine

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 have found a strong association between teenage birth rates and state-level measures of religiosity in the United States.

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