Thursday, January 24, 2008

Children Having Children

In the Philippines, one of out ten young women aged 15 to 19 is already a mother, and almost half of young women aged 20 to 24 will have begun bearing children. In 2000 alone, Filipino young women aged 15 to 24 accounted for 818,000 births; births among this group will likely exceed one million annually by 2020.

To get more information on this issue, please see the policy brief "Children Having Children" now available from the Save the Children website.

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