Teen mothers contribute more than 10% to child birth: Stats SA
Teenagers between the age of 10 and 19 have contributed 13.9% to registered child birth in 2016, according to the Recorded Live Births report released by Statistics South Africa on Thursday. Out of the 969 415 births recorded last year, 136 996 were born to teen mothers, and another large number of births occurred to mothers between the ages of 20 and 39 years totalling 783 322, Statistician-General Pali Lehohla […]
