Approximately one million adolescent girls become pregnant and give birth each year in the United States. Eighty percent of these births are to unmarried adolescents (ProQuest). A teenage pregnancy has serious consequences for both the child and the mother. The opportunity for a bright future dwindles with such high responsibility; a child. Many teens who become pregnant do not complete high school and are even less likely to consider going to college. Another effect of teenage pregnancy is that both mother and child become prone to health problems. Infants are more likely to suffer from low birth weight and other health problems. Most teens don't have health insurance, so it becomes more difficult to provide adequate health care for themselves and their babies. Not only are children of teenage parents more likely to be unhealthy physically, but sometimes emotionally as well. A teenager cannot provide the nurturing environment a baby needs to develop. Although teen pregnancy rates declined throughout the 1990s, a 3 percent increase in births to teenage mothers between 2005 and 2006 raised alarms about the failure of sex education programs and campaigns to reduce teenage motherhood (ProQuest). Various methods of contraception and the right but difficult choice of abstinence are among the possible solutions. In the United States, prevention of teenage pregnancies is an issue of utmost importance and the society as a whole needs to convince teenage girls in a more innovative and extreme way and it needs to move forward now. .Due to teenage pregnancies, mothers and fathers have to work very hard to have an optimistic future. School is no longer the first priority in the lives of adolescent girls after giving birth. Only 51 percent of teen mothers earn a high school diploma before age 22, compare...... middle of paper......thers", Fact Sheet #2010-01, Child Trends, January 2010, www.childtrends.org.40. “Socioeconomic and Family Characteristics of Adolescent Childbearing,” National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, September 2009, www.TheNationalCampaign.org.26. Elizabeth Terry-Humen, Jennifer Manlove, and Kristin A. Moore, “Playing Catch-Up: How Children Born to Teen Mothers Fare,” The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy/Child Trends, January 2005. Quoted in Pauline Anderson, “ Distress combined with poverty increases risk of teenage pregnancy,” Medscape Medical News online, July 31, 2009, www.medscape.com.ProQuest Staff. “Topic Overview: Birth Control.” ProQuest LLC. 2013: n.pag. Researcher on SIRS issues. Internet. November 25, 2013. ProQuest Staff. “Teenage Pregnancy Timeline.” Chronology of the main questions. 2013: researcher on np SIRS issues. Internet. November 25 2013.