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Teen pregnancy remains one of the most serious social issues . Teenage pregnancy increases the risks of welfare dependency and poverty , puts the child 's wellbeing under risk , and substantially weakens the development of workforce in the country . Adolescent mothers are unable to provide their newborn children with full life opportunities

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Introduction

Teen pregnancy remains one of the most serious social issues . Teenage pregnancy is caused by different factors , but it is more important

to reconsider the consequences of teenage pregnancy and their impact on the lives of young mothers and their children . Statistics and literature prove that teenage pregnancy increases the risks of welfare dependency and poverty , puts the child 's wellbeing under risk , and substantially weakens the development of workforce in the country . As a result teenage pregnancy creates a combination of factors which decrease adolescent 's chances to find a stable social position in the society and increase the likelihood of poverty and welfare dependency

Sociological studies prove that teen pregnancy is likely to cause poverty and welfare dependency for young mothers and their babies (Sawhill , 2000 . Experts unanimously agree that poverty accounts for numerous burdens young mothers must shoulder , but poverty makes the whole situation only worse . Compared to other young women with similar socio-economic status , adolescent mothers are more likely to end up being dependent on welfare almost one-half of all teen mothers and over three-quarters of unmarried teen mothers begin receiving welfare within five years of the birth of their first child (Sawhill , 2000 52 percent of young women on welfare have had their first children at early age (Sawhill , 2000 . Teenage pregnancy has already changed the structure of poverty in the U .S . Poverty and welfare are associated with family structure , and teenage pregnancy mostly results in the formation of single-parent families . Single-parent families constitute the larger portion of those who are poor or / and welfare dependent (Batog , 2006 "In the 1960s and 1970s , most of the growth of single-parent families was caused by increases in divorce , but currently , unmarried mothers tend to be younger and more disadvantaged than their divorced counterparts as a result , they and their children are even more likely to be poor (Sawhill , 2000 . However , poverty is not the only social consequence of teenage pregnancy the child 's wellbeing is put under risk if his (her ) mother has not yet reached adulthood

Teenage pregnancy creates serious risks for the future well-being of the newborn baby . Children of teenage mothers are more likely to be born with low birthweight (Sawhill , 2000 . That means that newborn babies of adolescent mothers are more vulnerable to infant death and chronic respiratory risks . Even if these children succeed to survive , they tend to display serious health complications later in life : these include hyperactivity , dyslexia , mental illnesses , deafness , and even cerebral palsy "Children of teen mothers do worse in school than those born to older parents . They are 50 percent more likely to...