Adolescent Sex Still Puts Young

More-educated women have fewer chil-dren. This seemingly straightforward relationship is actually complex, and the benefits associated with different levels of education can vary considerably by setting. This policy brief describes adolescent girls’ reproductive health risks and how increasing their educational attainment reduces those risks, includ-ing early and unwanted fertility, and benefits their future families and society. This brief also high-lights some factors that contribute to this power-ful education-fertility dynamic. Many successful programs are keeping adolescent girls in school and many programs offer reproductive health informa-tion and services out of school, including family planning. Combining such programs may yield more benefits than either one alone