Teen Parenting

Facts on Teen Parenting:

• Teenage mothers are more likely to drop out of high school
• Be and remain single parents
•  Score lower in math and reading into adolescence
  
  Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/12504-teen-pregnancy-rates-usa/#ixzz2Pzlhzgt3
•  Compared with high school graduates, they are more likely to be unemployed, impoverished, unhealthy, or incarcerated.
• High school dropouts earn about half as much annual income as high school graduates and are more likely to have children at an early age, use drugs, alcohol or both, and be overweight.
• Only
  40 percent of teenagers who have children before age 18 go on to
  graduate from high school,
  compared to 75 percent of teens from similar
  social and economic backgrounds who do not give birth until ages 20 or 21
•  Two-thirds of teen pregnancies occur among teens 18-19 years old.
• The sons of teen mothers are 13 percent more likely to end up in prison while teen daughters are 22 percent more likely to become teen mothers themselves.
• Close to 25 percent of teen mothers have a second child within two years of the first birth.*
• The United State spends $7 billion each year due to the costs of teen pregnancy.
• 80 percent of unmarried teen mothers end up on welfare 
• teens had fewer babies in 2010 than in any year since the mid-1940s.