The teen birthrate in the United States is the highest of any industrialized nation. According to the Robin Hood Foundation, an organization that works to improve the lives of impoverished children, “each year, nearly one million teenagers in the United States—approximately 10 percent of all fifteen- to nineteen- year-old females—become pregnant.” Over half of pregnant teens (more than a half million teens) give birth, and the vast majority of teens who bear children—72 percent—are unmarried. The Robin Hood Foundation reports that “more than 80 percent of these young mothers end up in poverty and reliant on welfare.” In addition, the children of teen mothers suffer more problems than the children of older parents. The Robin Hood Foundation reports that the children of adolescent mothers tend to have lower birth weights, have more childhood health problems, suffer more abuse and...