Pregnancy
...o dropout of school unlike girls that delay childbearing during young ages. Life is often difficult for teen mother and child. A study show that only 64 percent of teen mothers graduate or get there GED within two years of giving birth. With education cut short a teen mother may lack job skills as well as job security. This could make it hard to keep a job. A teenage mther usually becomes financially dependent under family or welfare. 50 percent of teens usually end up in poverty before there child reaches the age of five. Teens often have poor eating habits, usually smoke and drink and take drugs, which put there babies in high risk of being born with health problems. Studies show that tenn are more likely than older women to gain weight, if this were to occur the baby is in risk of being born a low birth weight baby. seven percent of mother's ages fifteen thru nineteen years old recieve late or no prenatal care. A baby born to a teen mother is more at risk of certain serous problem...