Can someone come up with some relatively current data on the following
comparison:  What % of girls graduate high school vx. % of teen
mothers that graduate high school.  I will take that for the measly
offering of $5.00, however, if happen to run across anyother
comparative data -- child abuse perhaps mothers <18 vs mothers >18 or
any other random age separator.  Poverty level comparrisons...income
level comparisions (similar).  Just about any information about teen
mothers vs. their non-mothering counterparts.  Again just the original
graduation rates will do me.....just rambling and getting gready! 
Take care and thank you!

Hi Pamelagh, 

I assume that you mean US national data, though it's probably pretty
similar in most parts of the US.

According to teenpregnancy.org at
http://www.teenpregnancy.org/resources/reading/fact_sheets/education.asp
41% of teens who have children finish high school, or about 60% drop
out.

The Wisconsin Department of Health and Family services also reports a
rate of just over 60% for teen mothers, though they also break it down
by racial group and other factors.  That information is here:
http://www.dhfs.state.wi.us/children/pregnancyplan/consequences.htm

The Minnesota Visiting Nurse Agency reports that the accumulated
4-year dropout rate of pregnant teens in that state is 80% in this
article: http://www.mvna.org/teen_pregnancy_program.htm

Not surprisingly, teen mothers tend to fare poorly economically. 
According to an article at Nevada KidsCount, "Eight to 12 years after
birth, a
child born to an unmarried, teenage, high school dropout is 10
times more likely to be living in poverty than a child born to a
mother with none of these three characteristics."  The article is
here: http://kidscount.unlv.edu/2000/unteenbirths.pdf

The Annie E. Casey Foundation runs the nationa KidsCount website which
has all sorts of data available on dropout rates, pregnancy rates,
etc.  A national per-state ranking of teen dropout rates is here:
http://www.aecf.org/cgi-bin/kc.cgi?action=ranking&variable=hsd&year=2000
and access to the full data bank is here:
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/databook/

I hope this proves to be enough data for you to work with, or at least
get you pointed in the right direction.

Hibiscus

Search strategy: pregnant teen dropout rate, teen mother dropout
statistics, national teen dropout rate

Thanks a bunch