About 30% of high school dropouts are girls who leave due to pregnancy. These girls will have a difficult life since they are very inexperienced in parenting. In the 1950’s and early 1960’s teen pregnancy reached a historical peak. Studies report that in countries such as the United States, teenage pregnancy results in lower educational attainment, increased rates of poverty, and worse life outcomes for children of teenage mothers. Schools should provide an in school day care because having an in school day care would definitely increase the rate of graduating teenage moms as well as being beneficial to the child and the community as a whole. Many teenage moms don’t have the time to take care of a baby. Thus resulting in them dropping
