The teen birth rate fell nine years in a row, dropping 22 percent from 1991 to 2000 to the lowest rate in the 60 years that data on teen births have been recorded. The teen pregnancy rate was also at the lowest rate on record. In 1997 with rates already declining, the Administration launched a national strategy to prevent teen pregnancy and encourage adolescents to remain abstinent. The Administration exceeded its goal and the requirement of the welfare law to assure that at least 25 percent of communities in this country have teen pregnancy prevention programs in place. The law also required unmarried minor parents to stay in school and live either at home or in an adult-supervised setting; supported the creation of Second Chance Homes, which will provide teen parents with the skills and support they need; and provides $50 million a year in new funding for state abstinence education activities.