Teen Pregnancy

7:07AM MDT: Kids At Risk...Today we will look at a couple of recent stories in the news. First, we'll explore the recent information showing the nation's record low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, including Wyoming, but most dramatically in several Mountain states among Hispanics, What's driving the declines... Read More ...

Friday is Kids-At-Risk day on The Morning Zone, and our panel will begin at 7:07AM MST by discussing  a new study that shows, states with more comprehensive sex education programs had lower teen birth rates -- but the effect seemed to be due more to political, religious and social differences between those states than the sex ed itself...

While the United States takes measures such as abstinence initiatives, sexual education and sometimes criticizing Bristol Palin as a scare tactic to prevent teenage pregnancy, some schools in the UK are taking a much more direct route. A report from the British National Health Service announced that many girls were given long-term contraceptives at school.

7:07AM MST: Our Kids-AT-Risk panel will explore a new government study that suggests a lot of teenage girls are still clueless about their chances of getting pregnant. In a survey of thousands of teenage mothers who had unintended pregnancies, about a third who didn't use birth control said the reason was they didn't believe they could pregnant...