In America, 3 out of 10 teenage girls become pregnant before the age of twenty. That's almost 250,000 teen pregnancies every year in the United States alone, it's horrible. It is estimated that seventy percent of pregnant adolescents drop out of school. Only half of these young women have a job, half of 250,000 women, that's a lot! More than fifty percent of teen mothers don't even have a high school diploma. It's really a shame. The reasons why these teenage mothers drop out of school are due to physical problems, morning sickness, emotional problems, embarrassment and fear of harassment. None of these reasons include getting a job or pursuing higher education for their or their child's benefit. Worse still, after twenty-four months with their first child without education or work, twenty-five percent of these teenage mothers become pregnant again. Less than 2% of teen mothers earn a college degree by age thirty. These teenage parents are living on the government's dime because of the choices they made so young and who is paying the government to pay these mothers? Taxpayers who work hard in society with an earned salary. It's not fair to the rest of the people to try to get an education and get a good paying job and find that part of their taxes taken out of their checks goes to programs that teen parents use because they won badly.