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MA: Two articles on teen birth rates. Springfield and Holyoke hightest in state.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Report outlines teen birth rates Thursday, February 14, 2008, Springfield Republican By STEPHANIE BARRY sbarry@repub.com New statewide birth statistics brought an unwelcome refrain for two Western Massachusetts cities, and revealed an all-time high in Caesarean sections. Holyoke and Springfield ranked first and second for teen births, according to 2006 statistics released yesterday by the state Department of Public Health. Holyoke's teen birth rate was 95 per 1,000 females aged 15 to 19 and Springfield's was 81. By contrast, the statewide average was about 21 per thousand. Lawrence ranked third with 80 per thousand. Holyoke and Springfield have garnered two of the top four spots in that category for several years running, public health officials noted yesterday, with no prospects of marked improvement in sight...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 15, 2008 (boomark / email).