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2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE
February 23, 2016 - Introduced by Senators L. Taylor, Ringhand and Vinehout,
cosponsored by Representatives Berceau, Jorgensen, Spreitzer, Subeck, C.
Taylor
and Zepnick. Referred to Committee on Senate Organization.
SJR113,1,2 1Relating to: proclaiming May 2016 as National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month
2in Wisconsin.
SJR113,1,43 Whereas, parenthood is the leading reason that teen girls drop out of school;
4more than 50 percent of teen mothers never graduate from high school; and
SJR113,1,65 Whereas, about 25 percent of teen moms have a second child within 24 months
6of their first baby; and
SJR113,1,87 Whereas, less than two percent of teen mothers earn a college degree by age 30;
8and
SJR113,1,109 Whereas, the United States has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the
10western industrialized world; and
SJR113,1,1211 Whereas, in 2011, the teen birthrate in the United States fell to the lowest level
12recorded in nearly 70 years of tracking teen childbearing; and
SJR113,2,213 Whereas, in 2008, the teen pregnancy rate among African-American and
14Hispanic teen girls between the ages of 15 and 19, was over two and a half times

1higher than the teen pregnancy rate among Caucasian teen girls of the same age
2group; and
SJR113,2,33 Whereas, eight out of ten teen couples with a child don't marry; and
SJR113,2,54 Whereas, a sexually active teen who does not use contraceptives has a 90
5percent chance of becoming pregnant within a year; and
SJR113,2,76 Whereas, two-thirds of families begun by a young, unmarried mother have
7incomes under the federal poverty line; and
SJR113,2,108 Whereas, teens had fewer babies in 2010 than in any year since the mid-1940s,
9and awareness campaigns can help reduce this number even more; now, therefore,
10be it
SJR113,2,13 11Resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the legislature
12hereby proclaims May 2016 as National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month in
13Wisconsin.
SJR113,2,1414 (End)
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