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FinanceMost teen parents not raised in poverty or by single parents
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This is fascinating and maybe not very surprising. A new look at the characteristics of teen parents shows that most aren’t from single-parent households or from households in poverty.
The study comes from the nonprofit Child Trends for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, shows that teens who report having a baby or fathering a child:
39% lived with both biological parents; 19% reported living with one biological and one step-parent.
28% lived in families with incomes below the federal poverty line.
Those who have had a teen birth are disproportionately more likely to be from single-parent families compared to teens overall, but the study finds more than half of teen parents were themselves from two-parent families.
I leave it to you to determine why exactly that is, but it is fascinating.
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