Teen Birth Rates Reach All Time Low In Mass.

Recent findings provided by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health has found that pregnancy among adolescence is at a record low. More specifically, the report only found about 12 in 1000 mothers 15 and younger.

This is a drastic difference from just back in 2012, when the birth rate among Hispanics at 16 was around 13 deliveries per 1000 mothers. The rate is also much lower than back in the 1990s at 35.3 in 1000. In fact, for Massachusetts' Hispanics, the teen birth rate was close to seven times that of white teens in 2013. For black teens, the rate was about three times greater than white teens.

Furthermore, findings showed that adolescent birth rate in the United States has been going down year after year while teen pregnancy has also been dropping, with record low rates as of May.

According to The Guttmacher Institute, in 2010 about 57.4 young mothers out of a 1000 were pregnant compared to 1990 rates of young mothers carrying children and how they've dropped about 50 percent.

Researchers believe that wider availability of contraceptives along with educational initiates that targeted sex education have helped to lower the number.

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