Teenage Pregnancies: #1 in Laotian Americans
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Pregnancy Studies: Laotian Teenagers
www.fsasf.org/programs/children_youth_family.html 
 Family Service Agency of San Francisco, California
www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/iag/compnent.htm  
Advocates for Youth Washington, District of Columbia

2003 study by the Public Policy Institute of California:
Non-marital teen births are also much higher for Laotian teens than for other Asian subgroups.
2001 study by the UCSF Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy found that 19% of allbirths to Laotian mothers were to teen mothers, the highest rate for any group in the state of California.

2001 API Teenage Study
The Guttmacher Institute found that 51% of teen pregnancies end in birth, 35% in abortion, and 14% in miscarriage. Hence, teen pregnancies for Laotians may be as high as 38%. It should be noted that this differs with DHS estimates (below is a rate from a 1994 report), but even DHS says it's the highest rate for any group in the State: Laotians have the highest teen birthrate in the State at 8.7%, which contributes to a high rate of unemployment and welfare dependency (DHS 1994).
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2001 API Teenage Pregnancy