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National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. // Teen Pregnancy is a Significant Problem // . (n.d.). Retrieved May 15, 2012, from GALE CENGAGE Learning.


 * 1) Three in ten girls in the United States become pregnant by the age of twenty.
 * 2) In the United States, there are over 750,000 teenage pregnancies each year.
 * 3) Issues such as poverty, births to unmarried parents, and the fare of children may all spring from teen pregnancies.
 * 4) The teen birth rate decreased by one-third from 1991 to 2002.
 * 5) If the rate had stayed at the 1991 level, 1.2 million children would have been born to teen mothers.
 * 6) With the 1991 rate level, 460,000 more children would be living below the poverty line.
 * 7) Seven hundred thousand more children would be living in a single-mother home if the rate had remained at the 1991 level.
 * 8) Due to the fact that the teen birth rate decrease, the rate for children under the age of six living in poverty has decreased by twenty-six percent.
 * 9) The teen birth rate decrease is also responsible for sixty-eight percent of the decrease of children under age six living with single mothers.
 * 10) The chances of a child growing up in poverty if they were born to a teen mother, had unmarried parents, and whose mother did not have a high school diploma is sixty-four percent.
 * 11) If none of the aforementioned events occur, the child's probability of living in poverty is seven percent.
 * 12) Each year, nine billion dollars of taxpayer money are going to be spent for teen childbearing.
 * 13) Of families started by a young, unmarried mother, two-thirds are poor.
 * 14) One quarter of teen mothers, within three years of their child's birth, must go on welfare.
 * 15) A teen who is in foster care if 2.5 times more likely to become a parent by age nineteen than her peer who is not in foster care.