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__Article 1 __

According to the National Campaign, founded in 1996 in an effort to reduce teen pregnancy in America, teenage pregnancy rates in the United States are still the highest among fully industrialized nations. In their Article, Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Teen Pregnancy, it states that “Fifty-two percent of Latina teens and 50% of African American teen girls will become pregnant at least once before they turn 20. In comparison, only 19% of non-Hispanic white teen girls under the age of 20 become pregnant.” The article also talked about the differences in contraceptive use, “Three times as many white students (27%) as black (8%) students reported using birth control pills before the last time they had sex. Hispanic students (11%) also reported used birth control pills less than half as frequently as their white counterparts.”

@http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/resources/pdf/Briefly_PolicyBrief_RacialEthnicDisparities.pdf

__Article 2__

This article focuses on community college students and the actual knowledge they have pertaining contraception use. Here we find that though we may believe that by the time students reach college they are well informed about topics such as contraceptive options and their proper usage, a study found that most students rely on their sex education classes from middle school and high school. The study also found that the information college students do poses about contraceptives is often incorrect. Lastly, it talked about the

role of community colleges in informing their students about contraception.

@http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/resources/pdf/Briefly_ContraceptiveUseCCStudents.pdf

__Article 3 __ Student Retention

@http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED515407.pdf