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Nevada Co Teen Birth Rate Stays Low

Posted: Jul. 16, 2015 10:30 AM PDT

California’s teen birthrate continues to plummet. It hit the lowest level in more 50 years in 2013, or 23 per one-thousand young women, aged 15 to 19. Nevada County’s rate is only 14 per one-thousand, the seventh lowest in the state. The number of births has dropped from 63 in 2010 to 39 in 2013. The director of nursing for the county health department, Cindy Wilson, cites good social connectiveness…

click to listen to Cindy Wilson

Wilson says the message for teen girls hasn’t changed much: encouraging abstinence and sexual responsibility…

click to listen to Cindy Wilson

Placer County has the second-lowest rate, at 10 per-thousand. Marin is the lowest, at 8.

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