The overall rate of teen pregnancy has steadily dropped over the last couple of decades. We just just have a much larger window into everyone's lives with constant news, reality shows, and the internet. Also, in my era, it was something that was kinda kept quiet. Some of the girls left school when they started "showing", or got married and, Gee, that baby sure looks big and healthy for a premature birth! In 2014, there was an average of about 24 births for every 1,000 adolescent females, but in 1991 the teen birth rate was nearly 62 births for every 1,000 adolescent females.