More Teen Girls Graduate High School When They Have Birth Control Access, Study Shows

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A new study has found that graduation rates for teen girls tend to go up when they have access to the full range of contraceptives.

Since then, the percentage of young women to graduate from high school increased by two percent and appears to have led to a 14 percent decrease in the number of young women in Colorado without a high school diploma.

: According to the Census Bureau, the Colorado Family Planning Initiative’s efforts to make contraceptives more accessible decreased the proportion of Hispanic women in ColoradoThis improvement is important: Failure to graduate from high school sets individuals on a path of reduced lifetime educational attainment that has become increasingly associated with poor life chances, driving inequalities in lifetime earnings and mortality,” researchers explainedThey aren’t the first to suggest that...

 

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