The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) recently released a report with data showing that sex education programs do work to help discourage many teens from becoming sexually active before age 15.  Instead, many Florida teens are being short-changed by ineffective abstinence-only programs.

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ATLANTA -- Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says.

Mississippi's rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national average in 2006, according to new state statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The teen birth rate for that year in Texas and New Mexico was more than 50 percent higher.