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==History== Teenage pregnancy, with conceptions normally involving girls between ages 16 and 19, was far more normal in previous centuries, and common in developed countries in the 20th century. Among Norwegian women born in the early 1950s, nearly a quarter became teenage mothers by the early 1970s. The rates have steadily declined throughout the developed world since that 20th-century peak. Among those born in Norway in the late 1970s, less than 10% became teenage mothers, and rates have fallen since then.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lappegård |first1=Trude |title=New fertility trends in Norway |journal=Demographic Research |date=15 March 2000 |volume=2 |doi=10.4054/DemRes.2000.2.3 |jstor=26348001 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/23/broadband-falling-teenage-pregnancy-rates-research-internet|title=Is broadband responsible for falling teenage pregnancy rates?|author=Alex Hern|work=The Guardian|date=23 June 2015}}</ref> In the United States, the [[Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act]] of 1996 included the objective of reducing the number of young Black and Latina single mothers on welfare, which became the foundation for teenage pregnancy prevention in the United States and the founding of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, now known as Power to Decide.<ref name="BusinessInsider">{{Cite web|url=https://clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/WH/New/other/sotu.html|title=President William Jefferson Clinton State of the Union Address |website=clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov}}</ref>
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