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12 Rich Facts About Teen Moms
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1. 3 in 10 teen American girls will get pregnant at least once before age 20. That's nearly 750,000 teen pregnancies every year.
2. Parenthood is the leading reason that teen girls drop out of school. More than half of teen mothers never graduate from high school.
Less than 2 percent of teen moms earn a college degree by age 30.
3. About a quarter of teen moms have a second child within 24 months of their first baby.
4. From 1990 to 2008, the teen pregnancy rate decreased 42 percent (from 117 to 68 pregnancies per 1,000 teen girls).
Teens had fewer babies in 2010 than in any year since the mid-1940s.
5. 8 out of 10 teen dads don't marry the mother of their child.
6. A sexually active teen who doesn't use contraceptives has a 90 percent chance of becoming pregnant within a year.
7. Almost 50 percent of teens have never considered how a pregnancy would affect their lives.
Out of all teen pregnancies, 82% are unintended. Teen pregnancy accounts for 20% of all unplanned pregnancies annually.
8. Teen pregnancy rate among African-American and Hispanic teen girls, age 15 to 19, was over two and a half times higher than white teen girls.
9. Two-thirds of teen pregnancies occur among teens 18-19 years old.
10. The United States has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the western industrialized world.
US rates are twice as high as in England, Wales, or Canada, and eight times as high as in the Netherlands or Japan.
11. Teen mothers account for 11% of all births in the US.
12. Out of all teen pregnancies, 57% end in birth.
Another 14% end in miscarriage.
Nearly a third of pregnant teenagers choose abortion.
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