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Using national survey data, Child Trends examines high school diploma and GED attainment by age 22 among women who gave birth as teens. 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Some who had a child before age 18 earned a diploma or GED after the child was born, with higher shares earning a GED and a noticeable increase in diploma attainment between ages 19 and 22.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":129,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":131,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":133,"site_id":62},264655,1789385232,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":136},{"doc_id":133,"user_id":137,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":138,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":139,"file_id":140,"file_url":141,"file_type":142,"file_size":143,"view_count":105,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":19,"language":144,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":145,"faqs":146,"seo_title":147,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":134,"read_time":52,"preview_page_count":4},1236954412713,"https://us-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_29158cc5080c5b710cf443261637dec0","FACT SHEET  \nPublication \\#2010-01 4301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 350, Washington, DC 20008  \nPhone 202-572-6000 Fax 202-362-8420 [www.childtrends.org](www.childtrends.org)  \nDiploma Attainment Among Teen Mothers  \nBy Kate Perper, M.P.P., Kristen Peterson, B.A., and Jennifer Manlove, Ph.D. January 2010  \nOVERVIEW. Recently released government data show that in 2006, the U.S. teen birth rate began to  \nincrease, marking the end of a 14-year period of decline. More specifically, these data show that  \nbetween 2005 and 2007, the teen birth rate climbed five percent.1,2 This trend reversal is a cause for concern, given the negative consequences of teen childbearing for the mothers involved and for their children especially. For example, research indicates that children of teen mothers fare worse on cognitive and behavioral outcomes than do their peers with older mothers. Teen mothers are more likely than older mothers to be dependent on public assistance after giving birth and to experience turbulence in their family structures—even taking into account the fact that teen mothers tend to be from disadvantaged backgrounds.3 In addition, teen mothers are at a particularly high risk of dropping out of school,3 although previous research has found that they are more likely to be having problems in school prior to their pregnancy.  \nIn light of teen mothers’ heightened risk of becoming high school dropouts, Child Trends used recently released national survey data to explore high school diploma and GED attainment among women who had given birth as teens. Particularly, we looked at whether they had earned these educational credentials by the time that they reached their early twenties.  \nOur findings show that slightly more than one-half of young women who had been teen mothers received a high school diploma by the age of 22, compared with 89 percent of young women who had not given birth during their teen years. Furthermore, results ofour analyses show that young women who had a child before the age of 18 were even less likely than were those who had a child when they were 18 or 19 to earn a highschool diploma before the age of 22, although the rates of GED attainment in the former group were slightly higher. We also found di ferences in educational attainment among teen mothers by race/ethnicity.  \nFINDINGS  \nTeen mothers have lower high school diploma attainment than those who did not have a teen birth.  \n􀀁 Young women who had been teen mothers were less likely than other young women to earn a high school diploma by the age of 22 (see Figure 1) . Almost nine in 10 (89 percent) young women who had not given birth as a teen earned a high school diploma before the age of 22 . By comparison, only about one in two (51 percent) young women who had been a teen mother earned a high school diploma by that age.  \n\n| \u003Cbr>Figure 1 | Diploma/GED Attainment by Age 22 |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| |  | Diploma\u003Cbr>51% | \u003Cbr>No Teen Birth | Diploma\u003Cbr>89% |\n| Teen Birth (age 19 or younger) |  |  |  |  |\n| \u003Cbr>Source: Child Trends’ analyses of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth—1997 Cohort |  |  |  |  |\n\n© 2010 Child Trends  \n􀀁 A higher proportion of young women who had been teen mothers earned a GED (15 percent) than did their counterparts who had not experienced a teen birth(5 percent) .  \n􀀁 One in three (34 percent) young women who had been teen mothers, however, earned neither a diploma or a GED, compared with only 6 percent of young women who had not had a teen birth.  \nYounger teen mothers are less likely than older teen mothers to earn a diploma.  \n􀀁 Young women who gave birth before the age of 18 (traditionally the age at which an adolescent completes high school) were far less likely than were those who gave birth between the ages of 18 and 19 to earn a highschool diploma. Among young women who had a child before the age of 18, only 38 percent earned a high school diploma by the age of 22, compared with 60 pe","cbCaiuPCdoftJXGo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuPCdoftJXGo","pdf",228744,"English","# Overview\n## Findings\n### Diploma/GED attainment differences by teen birth\n### Younger vs. older teen mothers\n### Credential attainment after a school-age birth","[{\"question\":\"What was the study’s main question about education outcomes?\",\"answer\":\"The study examines whether women who gave birth as teens earned a high school diploma or GED by their early twenties, focusing on attainment by age 22.\"},{\"question\":\"How do teen mothers’ diploma attainment rates compare with those who had no teen birth?\",\"answer\":\"Slightly more than half of young women who had been teen mothers received a high school diploma by age 22 (51%), compared with 89% among those who had not given birth during their teen years.\"},{\"question\":\"How do younger teen mothers differ from older teen mothers in diploma and GED attainment?\",\"answer\":\"Those who gave birth before age 18 were much less likely to earn a high school diploma by age 22 (38% vs. 60%). 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