Teen Pregnancy

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Teen Pregnancy

• BY Rabekkah Porter

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The Struggles

• Being a teen mother is hard especially when you
  are by yourself.
• You need a job to help
• Support your child.
• 34 of young girls have
• A child before the age 20.

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Struggles Continue.

• Teenage pregnancy and parenting can pose many
  challenges for both young women and the young
  fathers
• who are experiencing their own
• feelings.
• There are many ways to support
• you during
• Your pregnancy with out your
• babys farther there.

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Struggles Continue..

• 25 girls have baby and with in
• The 2 years the have another one.
• The most dramatic reduction in teen
  pregnancy23has
• occurred among
• African American
• teenagers.

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The Final Struggle.

• Teenage pregnancy rates remain high and
  approximately 1 million teenage girls become
  pregnant each year in the United States.
• 1991-2005 about 80
• Of the teen age
• girls got pregnant.

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The Cost

• The cost of a teen having a
• Baby for teens can be very
• Costly when not having a job.
• There are many ways to
• Get help from the state
• To help you support you
• And your child.

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The cost continue..

• Having a baby is
• A lot of money.
• You should be finance
• And ready.
• Being married might help.

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The Cost Continue.

• The cost is a lot of money.
• You need at lease 1500 dollars.
• You need that much to be able to get everything
  you need.
• Car seats and other
• things can get mighty
• Costly.

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The Cost Continue..

• You must have a car seat to leave
• And a car seat can be up to
• 300.00 dollars.
• A diaper bag is 40.00
• dollars.
• Bottles 15.00 dollars.
• Binky 10.00 dollars.
• Stroller 200.00 dollars
• For a good one.

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The Final Cost

• C-section 2,000-4,000 dollars.
• Staying in the hospital
• 300.00-400.00 a day.
• Bringing home the baby
• can cost up to 500.00-1,000
• Dollars.
• Because of the clothes
• other
• Things you might want.

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Pictures of Teen Pregnancy
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During my teen Pregnancy

• Although I am 18 I am still a teen and its a
  hard thing.
• I have my babys father here to help luckily.
• My advice to teens would be to wait till your
  ready and stable.
• Another advice that I would give is to stay in
  school.

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Reference

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  Facts . Retrieved june 10 2009, from Pregnant
  Teen Help Web site http//www.pregnantteenhelp.or
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