What A Small Town's Teen Pregnancy Turnaround Can Teach The U.S.

Thirty years ago, the small town of Denmark, S.C., had one of the state's highest teen pregnancy rates.

"We had very young grandparents, grandparents were maybe [in their] 30s," says Michelle Nimmons, who has worked for the past 30 years on the issue of teen pregnancy. "Great-grandmamas were in their 40s and parents were in their teens, so a lot of education had to happen."

Nimmons' efforts have paid off in Denmark and around the country in the last couple decades. Since the 1990s, teen pregnancies have decreased by more than 50 percent, as a from The Brookings Institution reports. In 2011, the , "329,797 babies were born to women aged 15–19 years," a number the CDC calls a "record low."

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