The Epidemic of Teen Pregnancy

Teen Pregnancy Statistics

• The United States has the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the western industrialized world
• Teen Pregnancy cost the United states at least 7 billion annually
• 2/3 of teenagers who have a baby will not graduate from high school
• 79% of teenagers who get pregant unmarried
• close 25% off teen mothers have their second child within 2 years of the first birth
• 80% of unmarried teenagers end up on welfare
• daughters of teen mothers are 22% more likely than their mothers to become teen mothers
• sons of teenage mothers are 13% more likely to end up in prison

Though teenage pregnancy has decreased from th 80's it is still on the rise and happening everyday!