What do you think the teenage pregnancy rate was in the 1950's?

I imagine it's very low but is there anyway to find out? I can't find any good sitesWhat do you think the teenage pregnancy rate was in the 1950's?
This is one of those things that you will never be able to pinpoint.





Back in the 50's and even 60's, if a teen became pregnant she was usually shuffled off to a relatives house or even a convent. They just yanked the girl out of school and away she would go.





I have to believe most returned home, with lies %26amp; excuses to keep from embarassing their families and to make sure their future spouses did not find out.





The statistics that the above answerer quoted were concerning MARRIED women as unmarried women were shunned and the stats were never kept! And lots and lots of pregnant teens become married women pretty quickly, so the stats do not take into account those that did not marry.





The world sure has changed.What do you think the teenage pregnancy rate was in the 1950's?
does it really matter?
';The rate of teen childbearing in the United States has fallen steeply since the late 1950s, from an all time high of 96 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 in 1957 to an all time low of 49 in 2000 (see chart below).';





http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/05/1/鈥?/a>





';In the late 1950s, 90 out of 1000 women under 20 gave birth as compared with 52 out of 1000 in 1978.';





http://www.makewayforbaby.com/teenpregna鈥?/a>





Chart w/birth rates for teen-agers, 1950-1997:





http://parentingteens.about.com/library/鈥?/a>





(How on earth was that hard to Google...?)
There were more then now, but the biggest difference is there are more unwed mothers now. Girls back then got married for the most part when they ';got in trouble'; And some went to homes for unwed mothers and gave their babies up for adoption at birth. Or where sent ot stay with family, and older married family members raised the baby as theirs.


http://www.cdc.gov/NCHS/data/nvsr/nvsr47鈥?/a>
go to google.com and search your question you will find a lot of good sites
Maybe 10..... LOL ..... @