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Fewer than one third of teen monther receive a high school diploma
- Almost one million teenage girls will become pregnant this year.
- 4 in 10 girls will experience at least one pregnancy before reaching age 20.
- Each year the federal government alone spends $40 billion to help families that began with a teenage birth.
- Only 41% of teenage mothers graduate from high school and only 1.5% will earn a college degree by age 30.
- Nearly 80% of unmarried teen mothers end up on welfare.
- The sons of teenage mothers are 13 % more likely to end up in prison, the daughters are 22 % more likely to become teen mothers themselves.
- Nearly 80 % of fathers of babies born to teen mothers do not marry their babies mothers.
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They REALLY need to start talking about the importance of pulling out... and using spermicide, if not condoms. Sex education is all screwed up these days... if it ain't an uptight, censored dope, it's someone who misleads with crazy ideas. Then they wonder why kids are so misguided sexually.
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