Teen Pregnancy
Victoria Smith
Information
Teens have started having sex way to early which is why ,In the United States there are 750,000 teen pregnancies each year.Which meas that there are 2000 babies born each day. Also that 30% of teen girls get pregnant at least once.
- The cost of raising a baby is 10,000 or more
- Also only 80% of the teen fathers never marry the mom.
- Teen dads also only contribute less then 800 dollars when supporting the baby.
Facts
- -Each year the united states spends at least 7 billion dolloars on teen pregnancy
- -More than 50% of teeen mothers never graduate from highschool
- Daughters of teen mothers are 22% more likely than their peers to become teen mothers
Teens who got Pregnant
Trish
Trish started having sex when she was 15 and she became pregnant. Once she told her boyfriend he told her that he was leaving and was not going to support the baby. After he told her she was left to raise her baby alone.
Sarah
Sarah was 14 when she started having sex and always thought that she would never get pregnant. But it happened to her and her boyfriend was willing to help her out. But her parents we not they kicked her out of her house, and she was to live with her boyfriend and not have her parents.
Tristen
At a young age Tristen started having sex with his girlfriend. He never thought that becoming a dad would happen to him. Or that he would become a dad at such a young age.
Statistics
- three quaters of a million teens beween 15 and 19 become pregnant each year
- Out of all teen pregnancies 57% of then end in birth
- 14% of teen pregnancies end in miscarriage