By age 30, only 1.5 percent of women who had pregnancies as a teenager have a college degree The daughters of teen mothers are 22 percent more likely than their peers to become teen mothers
It is true that the teen pregnancy and birth rate was much higher prior to 1980 (and especially in the 1950s and 1960s), but at the time young women were getting married and having children before the age of 20. Most of the teen pregnancies occurring before 1980 were to married women; now most of today’s teen mothers are...
Only about 50% of teen mothers receive a high school diploma by 22 years of age, whereas approximately 90% of women who do not give birth during adolescence graduate from high school. 10
Young women who give birth while attending a community college are 65 percent less likely to complete their degree than women who do not have children during that time.