11 Facts About Teen Pregnancy
ABUSE Magazine
TEEN
PREGNANcY
IS 100 %
PREVENTABLE
1 . The U . S . has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world – twice as high as in England or Canada , and ten times higher as in Switzerland .
2 . The U . S . teen pregnancy rate dropped six percent between 2008 and 2009 .
3 . About 750,000 teens get pregnant in the United States each year . Nevada has the highest teen birth rate ; 113 out of every 1,000 teens will get pregnant .
4 . About 1 in 3 women become pregnant at least once before they ’ re 20 .
5 . A sexually active teen who does not use contraceptives has a 90 % chance of becoming pregnant within a year .
6 . It affects education - only a third of teen mothers earn their high school diploma . And only 1.5 % have a college degree by age 30 .
7 . It also affects their kids - girls born to teen mothers are more likely to be teen mothers themselves . Boys born to teen moms are more likely to end up in prison .
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8 . 75 % of girls and over half of boys report that girls who have sex do so because their boyfriends want them to .
9 . 8 in 10 girls and 6 in 10 boys say they wish they had waited until they were older to have sex .
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10 . Most teens ( 6 in 10 ) and adults ( 3 in 4 ) believe that teen boys often receive the message that they are “ expected to have sex .”
11 . Diapers are expensive , but it ’ s nothing compared to the $ 9 billion that teen pregnancy costs the United States each year . This includes increased spending in child welfare costs and public sector health care .
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