IndexEffects of Graduation Rates and StatisticsDivorceEffects on the Child and the Teenage Mother's FamilyTeenage Pregnancy. You hear about it but you never really think it could be you until it's you, your life is about to turn completely upside down. Your life changes but so does the life of the unborn child, most teenage mothers are not ready to graduate from high school let alone raise a child. Think about it, the child is entering a world of complete chaos, maybe he doesn't have a father, the mother is not ready and maybe he doesn't even get to meet the person who carried you for 9 months and doesn't directly enter the adoption system . Maybe the child will be loved more than it could have been with its biological mother, maybe it won't be loved at all. Both mother and child will live their lives knowing that there is someone out there they have never met. On the other side, there are also teen moms living their best life with their baby and a happy family. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay. For example, this is Emily, she was 17 years old and just starting her senior year of high school when she got pregnant. She and her boyfriend had been together for about a year. She was very involved in her school, played the flute and was the captain of her school's dance team. She was also very involved in taking dance lessons and even Hannah 2 taught her classes in her studio outside of school. When Emily found out she was pregnant, fear was the biggest thing she felt, but she also felt a strange calm about being a teen mom. Telling her parents was also one of her biggest fears and that's what scared her the most. Naturally, she was nervous about how she would care for a baby and how her life would change from what she had planned. On the other hand, her boyfriend had big plans to go to college with Emily and one day marry her, but that would change everything. Have you thought about not keeping the baby? No, she never thought that because she was adopted, she didn't want to do something like that to her son. Emily knew from the beginning that she would raise the child. She spent senior year and a week before her baby turned one, Emily and her boyfriend ended up getting married. At the time, they were both full-time college students, working and trying to raise a little girl. A little over a year later Emily and her boyfriend ended up divorcing. He eventually remarried when his daughter was about three years old and had another child shortly thereafter. Now, when he no longer has children around, he works on his photography business. Despite all this, she is still doing well in life and has a happy marriage with four children. When asked if she has any advice that teen moms could apply to their lives, she said: "don't get lost in Hannah 3 the negative but choose to find the positive." Effects of Graduation Rates and Statistics Thirty percent of all adolescent girls drop out of high school due to teen pregnancy. Less than 2% of teen mothers finish college by age 30. Teen mothers who have a child while attending a community college are 65% less likely to complete their degree. That said, most teen moms have a hard time finding work and starting a career because they don't have a college degree or even a high school diploma and they also need someone to look after their child, so you would have to pay to have someone watch your child while still having money problems. “About 77% of teen pregnanciesare unplanned, 61% end in childbirth, 15% end in miscarriage, and 25% end in miscarriage of the mother." “The teen birth rate also decreased by 2% between 1999 and 2000 (48.8 to 47.7 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19) was 5% lower than the 1986 rate and 23% lower than the peak rate of 61. .8 births per 1,000 women reached in 1991. The abortion rate among adolescents in 2000 was 24.0 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19, about 3 percent lower than the 1999 rate of 24.7 per 1,000. From 1986 to 2000, the abortion rate dropped by 43 percent; over the same period, the percentage of teen pregnancies ending in abortion dropped from 46 percent to 33 percent; over a quarter (27%)”. Divorce Eight out of ten teenage fathers do not marry the mother of their child. Most people who marry before the age of 18 are more likely to divorce within the first 10 years of marriage. also getting married as a teenage parent makes the divorce rate even higher with the stress of having a child, still trying to grow up and not being mature, also trying to be financially stable to support you and your current family, you will be working so much that you won't you will be able to dedicate the time necessary to have a successful marriage, according to teen pregnancy and divorce rates, men and women who marry as teenagers are more likely to divorce than couples over the age of 25, only 24 % of marriages end in divorce after getting married after age 25. Over the past 25 years, the teen pregnancy rate has dropped from 117.6% of pregnancies to 43.3% due to teens' decisions to wait until marriage to have sex and also the number of effective contraceptives used by teens. Hannah 5 This is because many schools take an abstinence-only approach when teaching sex education, but an important part of prevention is having an active parent. “A sexually active teenager who does not use contraceptives has a 90% chance of becoming pregnant within a year.” Effects on the child and family of the teenage mother Many people only think that the mother's life is affected, but have you thought about the child? “At the family level, adolescents with mothers who gave birth as teenagers and/or whose mothers have only a high school diploma are more likely to have a child before age 20 than adolescents whose mothers were older at birth or who have attended at least some college. Having lived with both biological parents at age 14 is associated with a lower risk of teenage birth.” The child of a teenage mother is also more likely to have greater health problems and face unemployment as an adult due to the child's lower educational achievement which could increase the dropout rate. “According to the CDC's teen pregnancy and divorce statistics, teen pregnancies are more likely to occur in families where the parents are divorced. Unfortunately, teen mothers who marry young and perhaps divorce are also more likely to have their children become pregnant as teenagers.” When a teenager becomes pregnant and has a child, it is reasonable to expect that this will also affect the teenager's family, especially since the new baby requires a lot of love and attention, families will not have the time due to work and efforts to provide for family sustenance. Since almost 80% of teenagers want to live with their parents one year after.