It leads to unhappiness, divorce, extramarital affairs, and dissatisfaction. It denies the couples bonding experience. The anxiety of getting pregnant or catching a sexual transmitted disease can lead to depression. Some 400,000 teens annually have abortions, a source of depression, even suicide. Teens who marry because of pregnancy are three times more likely to divorce than women who wait until their twenties to conceive.
Pregnant girls are likely to drop out of school.
Teen moms earn half of those who wait. Sixty-seven percent of pregnant teens are poor. One in four sexually active teens become infected with a sexually transmitted disease every year. Many STDs are incurable. Some are painful or deadly.