During the second trimester the state may impose some restrictions. Infertility This is defined as an inability to conceive after a year of unprotected sexual relations. For current Statistics on Teen Pregnancies and Births see Stanley K. Henshaw of the Guttmacher Institute . The teen birth rate in U.S. is almost the highest in the world. Infant death is twice as high for women who become pregnant as teenagers as compared with first-time mothers who are twenty years old or older when they have their first child.
Marital disruption is three times as likely.
Teenagers who have babies are seven times as likely to be poor. One-half of all AFDC payments go to women who first gave birth as teenagers. Women who start having children as teenagers have 50 percent more children. E. Divorce and Remarriage Divorce is most responsible for the rise of female-headed families . Fifty percent of all recent marriages will likely end in divorce .