The problem of teenage girls having babies in Aiken County isn’t as big as it used to be, but it still is a significant one.
Doug Taylor, the chief program officer for the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, reported Thursday that the teen birth rate locally has declined 30 percent from 2008 to 2013.
The rate among 15- to 19-year-olds was 45.8 per 1,000 females in 2008 and 32.1 in 2013