Is broadband responsible for falling teenage pregnancy rates?

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There was a time, about two decades ago, when the rate of teenage pregnancies was one of the hottest of issues. Barely a week would go by without tabloid headlines lamenting their frequent occurrence. Then things quietly began to change.

In both Britain and America pregnancy rates for girls and women under 20 began to fall, and they have now been falling almost continuously for more than 20 years, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).