Reading Materials for Social Ills - teenagers

While im doing researches on the topics of MUET , i get some very useful sites or pdf for you all to read!
By reading this, you can have ideas for your SPM essay writing, MUET speaking and writing papers.
When im searching for Teenage pregnancies, i get many websites about this as this question happened long time ago and become very serious some years before.

Some interesting facts:

• Half a Million •
There are nearly half a million children born to teenage mothers each year.

• about 850,000 •
The number of teen pregnancies each year.

• 35% •
The number of girls who become pregnant at least once before reaching 20.

• 52 •
The number of teen girls who become pregnant every hour.

• 2 •
The number of people it takes to cause a teenage pregnancy. You both have to be responsible.

• 34 •
The percentage of teen mothers who are under 18-years-old.

• 4 in 10 •
The number of teen mothers, under 18, who finish high school.

• 8 in 10 •
The number of teen fathers who do NOT marry the baby's mother.

• $800 •
The average amount of annual child support that absent fathers give to mothers who gave birth as teens.

• 2.5 •
Young mothers, especially under 15, are 2.5 times more likely to die while giving childbirth than mothers between 20 and 24.

• 28 percent •
The proportion of babies born with low birth weights is 28 percent higher for babies born to teens than to babies born to mothers between 20 and 24.

• $7 billion •
The amount of dough the federal government spends to help families that began with teenage mothers.

• Double •
The reported incidents of abuse and neglect of children in families started by teenage mothers is double than in families that started with a mother in her 20's.

Source:http://www.youthnoise.com

There are many other information i get, below is those i feel that is useful!
Teenage pregnancies at Youth Noise
Pregnant Teen Help
Link 1
teenpregnancy.org
Guttmacher Institute

Some good pdf to download:
Teen Pregnancy - So What?
Not Just Another Single Issue
Preventing Teen Pregnancy: Why It Matters
Teen Pregnancy: Trends And Lessons Learned

Other than that, a VERY GOOD website that providing many Troubled Teen Issues,
Family First Aid, also mentioned about topics that we mention at last post
So, you can visit the site and look for suitable topic for you to read by refer to the left sidebar links!

If you found any more, can just share to us by posting a comment!

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