
That’s 750,00 teenage girls a year!
Almost 50% of teens have never considered how pregnancy would affect their lives.
8 out of 10 fathers don’t marry the mother of their child!
Daughters of young teen mothers are 3 times more likely to become teen mothers themselves.
Sons of teen mothers are twice as likely to end up in prison.
Less than 1/2 of teen mothers receive a high school diploma – few than 2% earn a college degree by 30.
The US has the highest teen pregnancy rate I the industrialized world – twice as high as England or Canada and 8 times as high as the Netherlands or Japan.
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