Root Causes
Unemployment = “adolescents who live in wealthier neighborhoods with strong levels of employment are less likely to have or to father a baby than are adolescents in neighborhoods in which income and employment opportunities are more limited” (Characteristics Associated with Adolescent Childbearing).
Generational= “adolescents with mothers who gave birth as teens and/or whose mother have only a high school degree are more likely to have a baby before 20 than are teens whose mother were older at their birth or who attended at least some college” (Characteristics Associated with Adolescent Childbearing).
Effects
“Educational, behavioral, and health outcome throughout their lives, compared with children born to older parents” (Negative Impacts of Teen Childbearing).
“Costs U.S taxpayers between $11.oo and $28.00 billion a year through public assistance payments, lost tax revenue, and greater expenditure for public health care foster, and criminal justice services” (Negative Impacts of Teen Childbearing).
Unemployment = “adolescents who live in wealthier neighborhoods with strong levels of employment are less likely to have or to father a baby than are adolescents in neighborhoods in which income and employment opportunities are more limited” (Characteristics Associated with Adolescent Childbearing).
Generational= “adolescents with mothers who gave birth as teens and/or whose mother have only a high school degree are more likely to have a baby before 20 than are teens whose mother were older at their birth or who attended at least some college” (Characteristics Associated with Adolescent Childbearing).
Effects
“Educational, behavioral, and health outcome throughout their lives, compared with children born to older parents” (Negative Impacts of Teen Childbearing).
“Costs U.S taxpayers between $11.oo and $28.00 billion a year through public assistance payments, lost tax revenue, and greater expenditure for public health care foster, and criminal justice services” (Negative Impacts of Teen Childbearing).