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Hannah Salisbury Jessica Lee Sarah Jahnes Melanie Yeomans

Teen Pregnancy

**Thesis statement: ** About two thirds of teens are getting pregnant between the ages of 15-19. To stop pregnancy people should think of ways of protection so teens are still able to be sexually active but having less of a chance of getting pregnant.

(HS)


 * 1) It’s an estimated that there are one million teen pregnancies every year in the United States about 85% of the pregnancies are unplanned
 * 2) Teens need more nutrients because the body is still growing and the baby needs it too
 * 3) Most teens drink and do drugs when they don’t know that they are pregnant and it ends up harming the baby
 * 4) Teen parents are capable of having a healthy pregnancy and having a healthy baby
 * 5) It always help for family and friends to be with the pregnant girls for support
 * 6) That have to live with being in high school and being pregnant and face the realities that they are
 * 7) Every one In three teens get pregnant at least once before they are 20
 * 8) Having the baby makes everyone’s life a lot harder
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">While finding out that they are pregnant there are a lot of decisions that her, her mother and the father of the baby have to make by deciding what they are going to do with the baby there are many ways, having that baby then giving it up or adoption, keeping the baby and raising it and also there is abortion
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">In 2002 there were over 750,000 pregnancies in the United States is including over 215,000 teen abortions
 * 11) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">It is hard on everyone even the father, the fathers don’t go far in school or don’t make a lot of money there is also an emotional strain on their relationship with there girlfriend and parents
 * 12) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Even though they are still young they have to deal with the money and responsibilities with being a teen parent
 * 13) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Once the girls is pregnant there is nothing to do all you have to make sure that the son or daughter doesn’t get pregnant or gets someone pregnant
 * 14) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Most girls who have being drinking underage or doing drugs have had sex after they are 14 years old
 * 15) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">If you ask any teen on if they should of waited or not almost all of them would say that they should of waited
 * 16) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Most teens need to remember to be strong and to show confidence
 * 17) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">When a teen smokes, drinks or does other drugs when they are pregnant it harms the baby, the baby can be premature, brain damage, physical disabilities and many other things
 * 18) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">When the mother has the baby and the father drinks, smokes, or does other drugs they can suffer from depression
 * 19) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Sometimes when the mother has the baby the father will leave the mother
 * 20) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Mothers who have baby’s in high schools usually end up dropping out
 * 21) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">10 percent of all U.S.births in 2006 were mothers under age 20. Most teenage births 67% were to girls ages 18 and 19
 * 22) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The babies that are sick can suffer from organ failure
 * 23) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">When the babies has a weight of less then 3 ½ pounds there are 100 times as likely to dies then a baby is 3 1/3 to 5 ½ pounds are 5 times as lucky to die
 * 24) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Only 40% of teens at the age of 18 or younger who have a baby graduate
 * 25) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">With her education cut short, a teenage mother may lack job skills, making it hard for her to find and keep a job
 * 26) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">A child born to a teenage mother is 50 percent more likely to repeat a grade in school and is more likely to perform poorly on standardized tests and drop out before finishing high school
 * 27) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Babies who are premature and low birth weight may have organs that are not fully developed. This can lead to breathing problems, such as respiratory distress syndrome, bleeding in the brain, vision loss and serious intestinal problems
 * 28) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">In 2005 16 out of every 1,000 babies of women under the age of 15 died
 * 29) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">the family friends and mother and father also have to deal with the economic strain of caring for a baby and the hospital
 * 30) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Teenage mothers are at a greater risk, than women that are 20 for pregnancy complications, such as premature labor, and high blood pressure. These risks are greater for teenagers who are under the age15 years old
 * 31) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">In 2007 the birth rates rose for a second year in a row
 * 32) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">These increases followed a continuous decline from 1991 to 2005
 * 33) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Teenage birth rates in the United States are high, exceeding those in most developed countries
 * 34) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">When the baby is born it has to survive because the family usually has a tough time caring for it, even though they think they are taking care of the baby correctly sometimes they aren’t
 * 35) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">As the years go by and there are more generations the numbers in child births under the age of 18 get bigger
 * 36) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Because of the risks involved in teen pregnancy to both mother and child, they recommend that anyone who is pregnant of can become pregnant to eat a healthy diet, achieve a healthy weight and quit smoking
 * 37) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">They recommend that they try to get fit and be active so that they can keep themselves and the baby healthy
 * 38) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Teen mothers are more likely to live in poverty than a women who delays becoming pregnant, and more than 75 percent of unmarried teen mothers go on welfare within 5 years of the birth of their first child
 * 39) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Teens are least likely of all age groups to get early and regular prenatal care. From 2000 to 2002, mothers under age 20 received late or no prenatal care at all
 * 40) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff5050; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Babies born prematurely face an increased risk of newborn health problems, long-term disabilities and even death

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">(JL)
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The U.S has the highest risk of pregnancy
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Around 1 million teens become pregnant each year, more than 530,000 give birth
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">50% of adolescents who have a baby become pregnant again within 24 months of the first birth
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">13% of all U.S. births are to teenagers
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">1/3 of teens moms drop out of school
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Pregnant teenagers are more likely to be undernourished and suffer premature or prolonged labor
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">2/3 of pregnant teenagers drop out of school
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">9% of teenage girls have low-birth weight babies
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The second baby born to an adolescent mother is at a higher risk than the first baby to be low birth weight
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Every 26 seconds another adolescent becomes pregnant
 * 11) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Every 56 seconds another adolescent gives birth
 * 12) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The younger the mother the greater the risks of complications for both mother and child
 * 13) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Teenage mothers are at risk of getting anemia, high blood pressure, placental problems, and pregnancy induced hypertension
 * 14) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The death rate from pregnancy complications is a lot higher for girls who are pregnant under the age of 15
 * 15) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Teenage girls miss out on their own childhood because they are busy taking care of another child
 * 16) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Staying in school can be harder due to the schools attitude, peer attitudes, and lack of day care for the baby
 * 17) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Children of teen mothers do worse in school than those born to older parents—they are 50% more likely to repeat a grade
 * 18) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">More than half of all mothers on welfare had their first child as a teenager
 * 19) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The sons of teen mothers are twice as likely to end up in prison.
 * 20) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The daughters of young teen mothers are 3 times more likely to become teen mothers themselves
 * 21) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">1 in 5 teens who’ve been in a serious relationship report being hit, slapped, or pushed by their partner
 * 22) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">80% of mothers who have a baby in the teen years remain on welfare for life
 * 23) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">8/10 teenage fathers do not marry the mother of there child
 * 24) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Teen mothers are twice as likely to be abused my there partner than a adult mother
 * 25) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Nearly one-third of teenage pregnancies end in abortion.
 * 26) <span style="background-color: white; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">57% of teen pregnancies end in birth **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">, **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">with 14% ending in miscarriage**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">. **
 * 27) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">About <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">1 in 3 women become pregnant at least once before the age of 20.
 * 28) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; display: block; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">During the first 3 months of pregnancy; seven out of ten teenage girls do not get prenatal care, see a doctor, or go to a clinic
 * 29) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Teenage girls may also develop many emotional problems such as depression, shame, guilt, and stress
 * 30) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">1/4 of all unintended teen pregnancies occur to adolescents using no birth control
 * 31) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">Older teens have much higher pregnancy rates than younger teens <span style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">.
 * 32) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900cc; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">In 2006 the teenage pregnancy rate in the USA increased for the first time in 10 years
 * 33) A third of pregnancy’s for teenagers have abortions

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5a56aa; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">(MY)
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5a56aa; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">MY Two-thirds of teen pregnancies occur among teens 18-19 years old.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5a56aa; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">There are about 750,000 teens getting pregnant in the United States each year.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5a56aa; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">A sexual active teen that does not protection has a 90% chance of getting pregnant within the year.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5a56aa; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">it effects education- only a third of teen mothers earn their diploma, and only 1.5% have a college degree at the age of 30
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5a56aa; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Teen pregnancy costs about 9 billion dollars each year. It increases spending in child welfare cost and public sector health care.
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5a56aa; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">It also affects their kids – girls born to teen mothers are more likely to be teen mothers themselves. Guys born to a teen mother are more likely to go to prison.
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5a56aa; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The US teen pregnancy rate dropped six percent between 2008 and 2009.
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5a56aa; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Babies that are born to teen mothers are more likely to have health problems at birth, do poorly in school, become a teen mother, be physically abusive, abandoned, or neglected.
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5a56aa; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">A law can require that a boy or a man take a test to determine if he is a father of a child. If he is a father then he must pay child support for 18 years,( even if he is under the age of 18).
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5a56aa; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The US has the highest rate of teen pregnancy, birth and abortion in the world.In the years 2005 to 2006 an average of 3.3 million young people ages 12-17 received services for emotional or behavioral problems in a mental health setting.
 * 11) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5a56aa; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Even more children and teens will face less severe emotional or mental health problems that can also cause problems on how they feel and get along.
 * 12) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #5a56aa; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Some common mental health problems for teen mothers are Anxiety Disorder, Bipolar disorder, suicide, depression and eating disorder.
 * 13) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Teenage mothers and fathers tend to have less education and are more likely to live in poverty than their peers who are not teen parents. Babies born to teen mothers are more likely to have health problems at birth, do poorly in school, do time in jail and also become teen parents.
 * 14) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The teen birth rate in New Mexico is decreasing, but not as quickly as for the United States. In 2004, New Mexico’s teen birth rate of 59.8 births per 1000 females, age 15-19, was 1.5 times higher than the United States teen birth rate of 41.2 between 1990 and 2004, New Mexico’s birth rate to mother’s age 15-19 declined 23% compared to 31.2% nationally.
 * 15) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Although unmarried women also had fewer births, the percentage of mothers who are unwed rose to 41%.
 * 16) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The birth rate for women in their early 20s fell by 7%, the largest decline in this group since 1973
 * 17) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">Using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs during pregnancy is a major cause of preventable physical and mental damage to infants and children.
 * 18) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">From 50-80 percent of all child abuse cases involve drug or alcohol use by the parents.
 * 19) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Mothers who use drugs during pregnancy are more likely to have low birth weight babies with medical problems and developmental delays.
 * 20) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The birth defects from alcohol can happen in the first three to six weeks of pregnancy—before a woman even knows she is pregnant.
 * 21) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">If a baby gets alcohol through its mother, the baby may have FAS.
 * 22) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">FAS babies may have malformed faces and often have problems with their hearts and joints
 * 23) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">A mother smoking during pregnancy and after Child birth can increase the baby’s risk of sudden death syndrome.
 * 24) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The result is that the U.S.has the second highest teen birth rate among 46 countries in the developed world. Since the early 1990s, more consistent condom use, increased use of hormonal contraceptives, and abstinence have helped to reduce the birth rate among teenagers some 34%.
 * 25) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Although sexual behavior among teens in theUnited Statesis similar to that of teens in other developed countries, teens in the U.S.are less likely to use effective
 * 26) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Teen fathers are also less likely to finish high school, and the jobs they hold will most likely be lower paying then those of men who wait to have children
 * 27) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">ACOG has found that the daughters of teen mothers are more likely to become teen mothers themselves, while the sons of teen mothers have a higher chance of being incarcerated than children with older parents
 * 28) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666699; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">Teen mothers are less likely to finish high school or get married, and are more likely to live in poverty, reducing their ability take care and provide for their children.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(SJ)


 * 1) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The teenage pregnancy rate is high because only a minority (one in three) of sexually active young women always use protection, and only one in two of these women rely on the most effective methods **
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teen mothers account for 11% of the births in the United States. **
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Out of all teen pregnancies, 57% end in birth **
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Black teens have the highest teen pregnancy rate. **
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nearly a third of pregnant teens choose abortion **
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2006 the teen pregnancy outcomes, 57% of teens have birth, 27% abortion, 14% miscarriage. **
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Out of all pregnancies 57% end in birth. **
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A third of pregnant teenagers choose abortion. **
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teens that get pregnant are likely to not go to college ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. **
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Many teens don’t seem to realize that being a mom at a young age is very difficult and a lot of responsibility. **
 * 11) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teenagers are more prone to risks during a pregnancy then a 20-30 year old women would be. **
 * 12) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2009, around 410,000 teenage girls age 15-19 gave birth in the United States. It’s a 37% decrease from the teen birth rate in 1991. **
 * 13) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Roughly 1,100 teenage women give birth every dayAll teenage pregnancies cost taxpayers about 9 billion dollars a year. **
 * 14) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anyone who has sexual intercourse in the past 3 months without using any protection decreased from 16% to 12% while the percent of students using two forms for example condom and birth control increased from 5-9%. **
 * 15) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The U.S has the highest rate of teen pregnancy, birth and abortion in the industrialized world. **
 * 16) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nearly four out of five girls will be come pregnant at least ounce before the age of 20. **
 * 17) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">New Mexico has the 3<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">rd highest teen birth rate in the nation. **
 * 18) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">About 4,500 teens have birth in the year of 2002. that’s 12 births everyday **
 * 19) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teen mother most likely have serious problems during pregnancy and delivery **
 * 20) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teen moms and fathers are less likely to get a diploma **
 * 21) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Babies born to teen mothers are most likely to have health problems be physically abused, do poorly in school, and also become teen mothers themselves **
 * 22) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">About 40 teenage girls get pregnant for every 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19 **
 * 23) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The CDC's latest statistics showed a recent 3% rise in teen pregnancies **
 * 24) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">42 births for every 1,000 girls in 2006, up from 40.5 births in 2005 **
 * 25) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the same time, teen pregnancies are still at their lowest level in 30 years. The high was 61 births per 1,000 girls in 1991. **
 * 26) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teenage girls who are pregnant -- especially if they don't have support from their parents -- are at risk of not getting adequate prenatal care. **
 * 27) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rental care screens for medical problems in both mother and baby, monitors the growth of the baby, and deals quickly with any complications that arise. **
 * 28) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pregnant teens have a higher risk of getting high blood pressure -- called pregnancy-induced hypertension than pregnant women in their 20s or 30s. **
 * 29) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">These medical risks affect the pregnant teen, which may need to take medications to control symptoms. **
 * 30) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teen pregnancy is one of the most difficult experiences a young person might ever face when it interrupts school or other plans **
 * 31) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Being pregnant can create a very emotional crisis resulting in shame and fear. **
 * 32) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">E <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ach year in the U.S. almost one million teenagers become pregnant--at enormous costs to themselves, their children, and society **
 * 33) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some reasons for teen pregnancy is because of low self esteem **
 * 34) **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #3366ff; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some other reasons are because they might have been sexually abused **

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