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Originally Posted by raeanna74
You and your kid's mom have done well, unusually well by your kid. Your situation is not the norm sad to say.
Age has a LOT to do with it.
"Nearly 80 percent of teen mothers eventually go on welfare."
"In 2002, only 10 percent of teen mothers aged 15-17 had graduated from high school."
"fathers of children born to teen mothers earned an estimated average of $3,400 less per year than the fathers of children born to mothers who were 20 or 21, over the course of 18 years following the birth of their first child (Annie E. Casey Foundation, 1998)."
"On average, a child born to a teenage mother visits a medical provider 3.8 times per year, versus 4.3 times for a child born to a mother over the age of 20 years (National Campaign To Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 2004b)."
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Those stats, as with many stats, I think are not causal in nature. I think that poverty-stricken areas may have a higher incidence of teen parenthood (does anyone have stats on this?) but one is not the cause of the other, there is just a simpole correlation. My mother was 19 when I was born, and I make more money than both of my parents combined ever have. I'm also almost never sick. Sure, I'm just one person, but the logic doesn't follow that there is a true causation with the above stated stats.