YouthNoise | Factoids: Teen Pregnancy

Facts About Teen Pregnancy
Factoids

• Half a Million •
There are nearly half a million children born to teenage mothers each year.

• about 850,000 •
The number of teen pregnancies each year.

• 35% •
The number of girls who become pregnant at least once before reaching 20.

• 52 •
The number of teen girls who become pregnant every hour.

• 2 •
The number of people it takes to cause a teenage pregnancy. You both have to be responsible.

• 34 •
The percentage of teen mothers who are under 18-years-old.

• 4 in 10 •
The number of teen mothers, under 18, who finish high school.

• 8 in 10 •
The number of teen fathers who do NOT marry the baby's mother.

• $800 •
The average amount of annual child support that absent fathers give to mothers who gave birth as teens.

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• 2.5 •
Young mothers, especially under 15, are 2.5 times more likely to die while giving childbirth than mothers between 20 and 24.

• 28 percent •
The proportion of babies born with low birth weights is 28 percent higher for babies born to teens than to babies born to mothers between 20 and 24.

• $7 billion •
The amount of dough the federal government spends to help families that began with teenage mothers.

• Double •
The reported incidents of abuse and neglect of children in families started by teenage mothers is double than in families that started with a mother in her 20's.



		• "It will never happen to me." • Meet Scott, he became a dad at 14.