South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

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Board training seminar hosted by the United Way of the Midlands Young Leaders Society.

Teen pregnancy costs taxpayers in South Carolina over $197,000,000 per year.

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1 in 3 girls in South Carolina will become pregnant before her 20th birthday.

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Less than half of teen mothers in South Carolina graduate from high school.

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Teens have higher rates of low birth weight babies and infant mortality than mothers in their 20s.

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Only 51% of young women who become mothers as teens get their high school degree by age 22, compared to 89% of young women who were not teen parents.

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52% of all mothers on welfare had their first child as a teenager.

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Nearly 80% of fathers do not marry the teen mother of their child and pay less than $800 annually in child support.

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Daughters of teen mothers are more likely to become teen mothers themselves, creating cyclical poverty over generations.

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95% of South Carolinians rate teen pregnancy as an important problem in their community.

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85% of South Carolinians support comprehensive sex education in schools

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committed to SC communities this fiscal year to support local adolescent pregnancy prevention efforts.