An Analysis of Teen Parenting Statistics

Look­ing at teen par­ent­ing sta­tis­tics it will be seen that there is a steady increase in the num­ber of preg­nant teens. Wide­spread sex edu­ca­tion and var­i­ous birth con­trol devices have failed to check teenagers from becom­ing par­ents. Teen par­ent­ing sta­tis­tics point out to the fact that this leads to the teenagers suf­fer­ing from prob­lems relat­ing to health, edu­ca­tion and money.

Those teenagers who are moth­ers face greater risk from bad health in com­par­i­son from those in the older age group. These health prob­lems are all related to teen preg­nan­cies – ane­mia, high blood pres­sure, under­weight, pre­ma­ture babies and a high rate of mor­tal­ity. Most of the risks arise because teenage moth­ers do not have access to pre-natal car­ing and not because of unripe bodies.

As per the find­ings of teenage par­ent­ing nearly 40% of teenage moms fail to get qual­ity care and ade­quate atten­tion dur­ing the preg­nancy. Thus the babies born are invari­ably unhealthy.

Teen par­ent­ing sta­tis­tics show that although teenage par­ents have become socially accept­able and they are able to con­tinue with school­ing, the prob­lem arises that nearly 80% of these teenage moms them­selves choose to opt out of school.  50% of teenage par­ents man­age to com­plete the high school course by the time they touch thirty years of age.

Teen par­ent­ing sta­tis­tics also show that it is likely for a per­son who has become par­ent within the ages of 20 and 22 will com­plete col­lege in com­par­i­son to some­one who has become a par­ent before the age of 19.

Con­se­quently the chil­dren of such teenage par­ents show weaker cog­ni­tive devel­op­ments in com­par­i­son to those in the same age group. They remain under-achievers and are more eas­ily prone to drop­ping out from school.

Teen par­ent­ing sta­tis­tics also indi­cate that these chil­dren in their turn exper­i­ment ear­lier than oth­ers in sex­ual exper­i­ments. There is a remark­able ten­dency in them to repeat the mis­takes of their par­ents and also become teenage parents.

Teen par­ent­ing sta­tis­tics show that this group who fail to get high school diploma or com­plete GED pro­gram expe­ri­ence greater dif­fi­cul­ties in get­ting jobs with good pay pack­ets. Teen par­ent­ing sta­tis­tics show that females who have had babies after the age of 20 earn dou­ble that of those who lan­guished as teenage mothers.

The teenage mother is fur­ther hand­i­capped by not receiv­ing any sup­port from the father of the child. This leads to 40% of them to depend on var­i­ous gov­ern­ment help plans like food stamps so as to survive.

For a teen par­ent the present and future is lined with grim chal­lenges for bring­ing up the child. How­ever if no sup­port is got from fam­ily or friends it is best to remem­ber there are many orga­ni­za­tions ready to be of help.