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Adolescent mothers and their children.(Statistical Data Included)
One in four black women and one in seven white women are already mothers at age 19.(197) Young mothers are more likely than other teenagers, including those who become pregnant but have abortions, to come from economically and socially disadvantaged backgrounds (Figure 48, page 58).
* Poor and low-income teenagers accounted for 83% of women 15-19 who gave birth in 1988, although they constituted only 38% of all women in that age-group. By contrast, higher income teenagers made up 62% of all women 15-19, yet represented just 17% of those who gave birth.(198)
* Nearly 60% of teenagers who become mothers are living in poverty at the time of the birth.(199)
* Nearly 60% of adolescents giving birth for the first time have their delivery fees covered by public funds, usually Medicaid (Figure 49, page 59). Even so, teenagers accounted for only about a quarter of all deliveries covered by Medicaid in 1988.(200)
* Adolescent mothers are more likely than other teenagers to come from single parent households.(201)
* Blacks and Hispanics, who are disproportionately poor or low-income, have a higher likelihood than whites of becoming adolescent mothers.(202)
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