High cost
of teenage
pregnancy

» EN 1983, over 40,000 Cana-
dian teens became pregnant,
or 39 girls out of every 1,000
between the ages of 15 and

9.

Surveys show more teens
are sexually active today
than they were a decade ago.

“Like it or not,’’ says
child expert Sol Gordon,
“our teens are sexual beings
and they are having sex."

Where teens receive sex
education and access to fam-
ily planning services, the
reduction in unplanned
pregnancies is dramatic. A
1985 international study on
adolescent ‘pregnancy, done
by The Alan Guttmacher In-
stitute, found that those Ca-
nadian provinces with exten-
sive family planning services
had the highest decline in
teen pregnancy between 1971
and 1981. Conversely, pre-

vinces with more limited ac-
cess to family planning
clinics continue to have the
highest rates of teenage
pregnancy,

All of society bears the
cost of unintended teenage
pregnancies and
motherhood. In 1983,
Manitoba taxpayers alone
contributed approximately
$8.5 million to provide ser-
vices such as abortion,
adoption and social
assistance for pregnant teens
and single mothers.

Studies show it is more
cost efficient to prevent teen
pregnancies than to pay for
the consequences. An On-
tario study found that for $1
spent on preventing adoles-
cent pregnancy, $6.50 was
spent on only two outcomes
of teen pregnancy — abor-
tion and income support for
teen mothers.

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