World News Tonight (ABC) - 1996-04-02

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1996-04-02
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Read a transcript preview of “World News Tonight (ABC) - 1996-04-02” from malgent, uploaded on 2026-02-22.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] That's why the games America watches

[0:02] most are supporting the games the world

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[0:11] Olympic Games.

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[0:18] >> Tomorrow at 9:00

[0:25] on World News Tonight, teenagers in

[0:27] trouble. A government report on

[0:28] adolescent pregnancies.

[0:30] >> Nine's coming left.

[0:31] >> Cops in trouble. Sheriff's deputies who

[0:34] beat an unarmed man and woman. And a

[0:37] rich man's latest passion. All the

[0:39] photographs he can get his hands on.

[0:44] >> From ABC. This is World News Tonight

[0:47] with Peter Jennings.

[0:48] >> Good evening. We begin tonight with

[0:50] American children in danger. There are

[0:52] two government reports making news today

[0:54] because they paint a troubling picture

[0:56] of the nation's young people. The

[0:57] youngest are increasingly subject to

[1:00] abuse and neglect at home. And teenagers

[1:02] are increasingly getting pregnant and

[1:04] giving birth out of wedlock. First, the

[1:06] teenagers and the results of an

[1:08] extensive government survey which

[1:10] documents sexual behavior among teenage

[1:13] girls for the entire decade of the

[1:15] 1980s. It finds that by the end of the

[1:17] decade among girls 15 to 19, there was a

[1:21] dramatic increase in the number of girls

[1:23] having babies, an 18% increase in very

[1:26] few years. The social ramifications of

[1:29] this are felt everywhere in the nation.

[1:31] First, here's ABC's Rebecca Chase.

[1:34] The Centers for Disease Control found

[1:36] that towards the end of the decade,

[1:38] birth rates for girls aged 15 to 19

[1:41] suddenly increased dramatically. We

[1:44] think