Pregnancy
Unplanned or Unwanted Pregnancies
In New Zealand over 5,000 children are born to teenage mothers, each year.
In 2001 a survey was taken to see how many teenagers fell pregnant in one year they characterized it by age.
- Four, 12 year old's fell pregnant.
- Sixteen, 13 year old's fell pregnant.
- Eighty-four, 14 year old fell pregnant.
- Three Hundred and Eighty Nine, 15 year old's fell pregnant.
- Seven Hundred and Seventy Three, 16 year old's fell pregnant.
- One Thousand, Three Hundred and Twelve, 17 year old's fell pregnant.
- Two Thousand and eleven, 18 year old's fell pregnant.
- Four Thousand and Eighteen, 19 year old's fell pregnant.