BOSTON – Single motherhood isn't often on the high school or college to-do list for women. But around 6 percent of those aged 15 to 19 become pregnant each year.
In 2010, pregnancy ended in abortion for 157,450 women, or 26 percent of those in that age group who got pregnant, according to a study by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research organization in New York. It reported that 60 percent had their babies, which would mean roughly 377,000 births, while the rest had a miscarriage. In 2013, there were 273,105 births to women ages 19 or younger, according to a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.
PUNXSUTANEY – Punxsutawney Phil, the nation's most famous groundhog, made his annual appearance on Tuesday morning during the annual Groundhog Day ceremony in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Phil did not see his shadow, thereby predicting an early spring in 2016.
According to American folklore tradition, the groundhog wakes up from his winter sleep on February 2 to search for his shadow. If he finds it, he understands it to mean six more weeks of winter and returns to his hole. If the weather is cloudy and offers no shadow, it is a sign of early spring, and the groundhog stays above ground.
