Teen Pregnancy Statistics and Teen Pregnancy Facts

2008, Family First Aid, retrieved 22 April 2008
http://www.familyfirstaid.org/teen-pregnancy.html

There wasn't an author listed for this article but it has a lot of good stats and facts. The worst part of being pregnant will probaby be the cost, which in the US would be atleast $7 billion annually. About 34% of women get pregnant before they reach the age of 20 and thats about 820,000 a year. Eight out of 10 were unintended and 79% were just unmarried. Back in the day before the 1980s teens would most likely have been married before they had gotten pregnant and today most of them are just unmarried. Four out of 10 girls who had a first intercourse at the age of 13 or 14 were reported to be non-voluntary or unwanted. About one-third of pregnant teens receive their high school diploma and 1.5% of them have a college degree by the age of 30. Studies show that 13% of sons end up in prison and 22% of daughters also become teenage mothers. The girls who don't get pregnant as teens are the ones who say its agains their religious or moral values, to avoid pregnancy, fear of STDs, and not having the appropriate partner. On the other hand 3 out of 4 girls have sex because their boyfriends want them to.