This data is provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention showing teen birthrates.

One claim that is made with Juno Effect is that Juno sparked an increase in rates of teen pregnancy. This chart (left) is produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the division of reproductive health in 2015. It includes national data for birth rates from females aged 15-19 years from 1991 to 2014. Based on this data, there is a steady decline in teenage birth rates over this 13-year span. This is crucial in my claim that Juno did not create a rise in numbers for pregnant teenagers.

Juno was released to theaters in December of 2007. The statistics on cdc.gov show a slight increase in the number of pregnant teens in 2007 but decline once again in 2008. With that being said, if Juno had cause a spike in pregnant teens, the numbers would have reflected in 2008 and 2009. Since the CDC shows a decline in each of those years it is clear that the Juno Effect is not as severe as critics claim. Instead, I argue the Juno simply brought a higher awareness to the fact that teens are sexually active. Teens having sex and getting pregnant has been going on a lot longer than people realized and it wasn’t until it was on the big screen that everyone decided to notice what was actually going on.