TY - JOUR T1 - Living life with hope: Strategies for reducing teen birth rates JF - The Nation's Health JO - Nations Health SP - 3 LP - 3 VL - 40 IS - 6 AU - Carmen Nevarez Y1 - 2010/08/01 UR - http://www.thenationshealth.org/content/40/6/3.1.abstract N2 - The birth control pill turned 50 this year. I remember when I accidentally found my mother’s birth control pills in the ’60s. She told me they were for a female problem, and the significance of that confession just sailed right over my youthful head. Her explanation to her Catholic daughter — in the age of the church’s “Humanae Vitae,” which condemned artificial birth control — sufficed for then. I still marvel at the importance of this scientific breakthrough that empowered women to decide whether and when to bring a child into this world, privately and with greater safety. ER -