Thomas R. Frieden Quotes

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.

We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.

All the really pretty girls get pregnant.

The best time to have a baby is when you're a black teenager.

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away that I wanted to keep my child, being a pregnant teen was an extremely scary experience for me. Luckily, my family and friends were very supportive and were there for me every step of the way.

When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

There is only one question to ask a presidential candidate that makes any sense. It is: What do you propose to do about the rate of illegitimate births?

I can’t pass any legislation that will stop children from having children. Education must do that.

There should be a sense of shame if a 13 or 14 year old has a baby out of wedlock.

Activists for retrograde social policy live in a world where if you don’t tell teenagers about contraception, they won’t have sex. But that world is not reality, and that fantastical view of human behavior should not dictate sex education policy in ... public schools. Yet it does.

Child marriage and pregnancy … is the biggest cause of teenage female deaths in the world.

The evidence is pretty strong: if you have access to family planning and birth control, the abortion rate is going to go down.

Girls are having babies when they are younger and combining kids with work. I don't know if it's always been there or if I'm just more aware because I'm in this situation.

In the public, it seems to be painted that when minorities get pregnant, they need to get abortions, especially when it comes to teen pregnancy. It's like, when black girls are pregnant, it's like a statistic, but when white girls get pregnant, they get a TV show.

Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious? I mean, that makes me want to kill somebody.

You'll discover in countries where women have control over their own bodies, where they have education, where they have birth control, where they have facilities and where they are literate, when those things happen, the birth rate falls.

I'm getting pretty worried. My girlfriend hasn't gotten her period. And she's already 14.

You must address the historical and political differences in race and ethnicity in this country before you hold tenaciously to insubstantial, and unsubtantiated, beliefs.

In the '50s you weren't taught about sex whatsoever. It was never just talked about. People used to snoop behind their curtains and look at the neighbors. And if a girl became pregnant in your part of the world, she was shipped off to the countryside.