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To: combjelly who wrote (753460)	11/18/2013 5:23:31 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 1578945

About a half a million per year are added to the welfare roles just from teen pregnancies - and they often don't stop at one child. fas.org In 2008, an estimated 733,000 U.S. teenagers (ages 15-19) became pregnant, approximately 106,000 had miscarriages, and 192,000 had legal abortions (latest available data).1 The result was that there were nearly 435,000 births to teenagers in that year. In 2011, 8.4% of all U.S. births were to teens, and 18.4% of all nonmarital births were to teens. According to a 2010 report: Teen childbearing is associated with adverse health and social outcomes for teen mothers and their children, although these outcomes often reflect preexisting social deficits. Compared with women who delay childbearing until their 20s, teen mothers are more likely to drop out of school and have low educational attainment; to face unemployment, poverty, and welfare dependency; to experience more rapid repeat pregnancy; to become single mothers; and to experience divorce, if they marry. Infants of teen mothers are more likely to be premature and experience infant mortality. The children of teenage mothers do less well on indicators of health and social wellbeing than do children of older mothers.2 In recognition of the negative, long-term consequences associated with teenage pregnancy and births, the prevention of out-of-wedlock pregnancies3 is a major goal of this nation. Reducing nonmarital childbearing is one of the explicit goals that were stipulated in the 1996 welfare reform law.4 Although the birth rate for U.S. teens has dropped in 18 of the last 20 years, it remains higher than the teenage birth rate of most industrialized nations.5 Financial and Social Costs of Teen Births Preventing teen pregnancy is generally considered a priority among policymakers and the public because of its high economic, social, and health costs for teen parents and their families. Teenage mothers and fathers tend to have less education and are more likely to live in poverty than their peers who are not teen parents. Children of teenage mothers are more likely than children of older mothers to have chronic medical conditions, rely heavily on provided health care, do poorly in school, give birth during their teen years (continuing the cycle of teen pregnancy), spend some time in a juvenile detention facility or jail, and be unemployed or underemployed as a young adult.13 Teen childbearing in the United States cost taxpayers (federal, state, and local) about $11 billion in 2008, according to an analysis by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.14 According to the report, most of the costs of teen childbearing are associated with negative consequences for the children of teen mothers, including increased costs for health care, foster care, incarceration, and lost tax revenue. The study looks only at the increase in these costs that is associated with having a child before age 20 versus having a child at age 20 or 21. That is, they are net costs and not gross costs.15 The June 2011 study by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy estimated that in 2008, adolescent childbearing cost U.S. taxpayers about $11 billion per year: $2.8 billion in child