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- Almost one million teenage girls will become pregnant
this year.
- 4 in 10 girls will experience at least one pregnancy before reaching
age 20.
- Each year the federal government alone spends $40 billion to help
families that began with a teenage birth.
- Only 41% of teenage mothers graduate from high school and only
1.5% will earn a college degree by age 30.
- Nearly 80% of unmarried teen mothers end up on welfare.
- The sons of teenage mothers are 13 % more likely to end up in prison,
the daughters are 22 % more likely to become teen mothers themselves.
- Nearly 80 % of fathers of babies born to teen mothers do not marry their babies mothers.
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