Group says education will help teen pregnancy rate fall

While Iowa is seeing a slight drop in its teen pregnancy rate, some activists want the numbers to fall farther.As part of Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, one state group hopes to build stronger partnerships between communities, churches, families and schools to curb the number of young mothers. The number of teens giving birth fell in the past few years from around four-thousand statewide to 39-hundred.That’s K-D Burkett, a prevention services coordinator at the Iowa Network for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Parenting. He says an accurate education about sexuality can better prepare today’s young people for their responsibilities as tomorrow’s parents.A recent survey of Cedar Rapids high school seniors found 52-percent said they have had sex, with 44-percent saying they always used birth control.