What effect does childbearing have on a teens health and economic status?
Ø Teens are more likely than women 20 years of age or older to have: late or no prenatal care; low birth weight babies; and babies who die within the first year of life. Ø Teen parents are likely to be less educated, have more children, have more nonmarital births, and have more unintended births than women who postpone childbearing.
