

Of the 1,700 teenagers who give birth each week, 60 percent do not finish high school. Most students who dropped out after becoming pregnant have something in common: They strongly believe that they could have graduated, had they only stayed in school. Some had applied to college some were enrolled in college. Some were straight-A students before they became parents. These young women come from all different backgrounds. Department of Education, one-third of young women who leave school do so in order to become a parent and take on their role as a full-time mother. Pregnancy and parenthood are the leading reasons why young women drop out of school each year.
