Statistics

• One million teens in the USA will become pregnant over the next twelve months.

(Ninety-five percent of those pregnancies are unintended. About one third will end in abortion; one third will end in a miscarriage; and one third will continue their pregnancy to term and keep their baby.)

• More than half of them are 17 years old or younger when they have their first pregnancy.
• Approximately 40 percent of young women become pregnant before they reach 20 years old.
• Less than one-third of teens who have babies before the age of 18 finish high school.
• Almost half of all teen mothers end up on welfare.
• Less than 25 percent of births to teens occur within wedlock.

(Strasburger,2007)