Teenage Pregnancy and Poverty in N.Y.

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This paper examines the reasons behind the social problem of teenage pregnancy and the relationship it has to poverty in New York City and offers possible solutions.

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"Teenage pregnancy remains a social problem in the United States today. In the United States, 800,000 to 900,000 teens become pregnant each year. In a survey conducted in 1999 survey, 6 percent of high schoolers said they had either become pregnant or had gotten another pregnant during their high school years. (Ham) The incidence of pregnancy for teens between the ages of 11 to 13 increases in cities. Babies of teenage mothers often grow up in poverty, and in turn, become teenage mothers themselves. Girls born to teenage mothers are 83 percent more likely to have babies when they are teenagers, and teenage mothers are more than twice as likely as others their age to be on welfare. ("Groundbreaking Study On Teenage Childbearing Quantifies Devastating Consequences To Parents, Children, and Society.")"

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