Nearly half a million teens give birth annually and perhaps two-thirds of them never finish high school.
Public schools offer little help.
Teen moms are treated as pariahs and losers and face humiliation, segregation and discrimination. I'm going to college, too, for criminal justice, and try to be somebody in life. Even before she became pregnant, Colondres recalled, her stepfather, who lives in New Jersey with her mother, used to say that Colondres and her siblings would be failures. When Colondres did get pregnant at 16, she got little emotional support. My family talked, 'Oh, she's going to be back with her mom.