Why aren’t today’s teens getting pregnant?

Published: 28 June 2018

MRC/CSO SPHSU PhD student, Andrew Baxter, blogs about his project which seeks to explain why rates of teenage pregnancy in England, Wales and Scotland have been dropping since the turn of the millennium

Andrew Baxter, a PhD student in the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, has written a blog about his project which seeks to explain why rates of teenage pregnancy in England, Wales and Scotland have been dropping since the turn of the millennium.

Some of the theories behind the drop include sex education, access to contraception and spending leisure time online.


First published: 28 June 2018