3 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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