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- Approximately 70,000 reported cases of child abuse are reported in San Diego County annually.
- As reported by the Center on Policy Initiatives (CPI) for San Diego, the country’s poverty rate rose to 12% and the City of San Diego’s rose to 14.3%. These rates are the highest rates on record for San Diego in the last 50 years.
- California ranks first in the number of pregnancy among adolescents. There are an estimated 126,300 pregnancies among California teens. Approximately 61% of these pregnancies were to females ages 18 to 19, and 39% to females between the ages of 15 and 17. California Dept of Education (Berglas, N., Brindis, C., and Cohen, J., pp 8-9).
- In 2001, 53,776 births were to teen mothers.(Berglas, N., Brindis, C., and Cohen, J., p. 4)
- According to a nationally recognized paper that was funded by the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, 71% of females aging out of foster care become pregnant at least once before age 21, while this is true for only 34% of the general population.
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