Thanks To Better Sex Ed, California’s Teen Birth Rate Has Plummeted By 60 Percent

Thanks To Better Sex Ed, California’s Teen Birth Rate Has Plummeted By 60 Percent: But progress in this area isn’t uniform across every area of the country. While states like California are making huge gains, the teen pregnancy rate remains stubbornly high in the South. Adolescents there tend to receive ineffective abstinence education, and they’re more likely to lack access to birth control resources.