The teen pregnancy rate among African-American and Hispanic teen girls, ages 15 to 19, was over two and a half times higher than the teen pregnancy rate among white teen girls of the same age group. About 80% of teen fathers don't marry the mother of the child. They also contribute very little to raising the baby. On average, teen dads pay less than $800 a year on child support. Teen pregnancy rates have been decreasing since 1988. The rate then was about 111.4, the rate in 2010 was 57.4. That’s a 54 percent drop in 22 years. The highest teen pregnancy rate in the United States is twice as high as in England and Canada, plus ten times higher than Switzerland. The children of teenage mothers have low birth weights, are more likely to perform
