• One-third of young women become pregnant at least once before they reach the age of 20 – about 820,000 a year.
  
  
• The U.S. has the highest rates of teen pregnancy and births in the industrialized world.
  
  
• Teen pregnancy costs the United States at least $7 billion annually.
  
  
• Two-thirds of sexually experienced teens—both boys and girls—wish they had waited.
  
  
• Eight of ten teen fathers do not marry the teen mothers of their children.
  
  
• Two thirds of teen mothers never finish high school. Teen mothers are more likely to end up on welfare than are women who have children later.
  
  
• Eeverybody is NOT doing it.  The proportion of high school teens who have had sex declined 14% between 1991 and 2003.  Currently slightly less than half of high school teens say they have had sex.
  
  
• Most teens (87%) say that it would be much easier for them to delay sexual activity and avoid teen pregnancy if they had more open, honest conversations about sex with their parents.

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