European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Teen Homs Deil Magazine by Patricia Mccormack United press International repercussions of teen age childbearing i America Are severe and Long lasting according to reports published in a recen Issue of Fautt planning perspectives. Teen age parents fathers As Well As mothers suffer educational social psychological and financial setbacks Likely to stunt their development lifelong according to Era of children bearing children As toe epidemic of teenage pregnancies is called involves each year about million giving birth or obtaining abortions or having miscarriages or stillbirths. The reports link teenage childbearing to school dropouts oot of Wedlock births marital discord and often a likelihood of Landing on welfare. Sexual activity among teenagers a spinoff of the sexual revolution continues unabated according to the of teenagers it shows continue to learn by doing while adults and the establishment debate the Wisdom of installing sex education in schools or As a Community part of the Price paid tens of thousands of sexually Active teenage girls become sterile each year from the venereal disease gonorrhoea. Originator of one of the studies the planned Parent Hood federation operating on a $70 million a year budget suggested that teenagers go to clinics that serve adults when they want contraceptive help. It was recommended that clinics be opened in 592 counties where non exist. One of the special reports in the teenage pregnancy Issue one from project Talent is touted As probably the first to show that adolescent childbearing is a cause dropout Independent of other factors such As Scholastic aptitude and achievement and Sociol economic status. Project Talent is the continuing study of 375.000 Stu dents who were in Junior or senior High in 1960. The cur rent Talent report. By analysts at the american institutes for research in Palo Alto. Calif., is based on Welt son How was be be do a at i on in school today four sets of interviews taken up to 11 years following graduation. It shows adolescent moms and dads did not Complete As Man years of schooling As their classmates. The lower their age at first birth the fewer years of school completed. The toll of Early childbearing was greater upon Heyoung mothers in relation to their classmates than upon the Young fathers. This reflects the reality that women Bear the child and in most cases accept greater responsibility for rearing at All stages those who became moms in their teens have less prestigious jobs have lower incomes and Are less satisfied with their jobs than their classmates. Adolescent parents experience greater separation an divorce rates and Are More Likely to marry persons of limited education or occupation than their class mates. Eleven years out of High school fewer than 10 percent of the teen age mothers spouses had Colleg degrees compared with More than 40 percent among their classmates husbands. High lights of other reports in the teen age pregnancy edition of Perfective by 1984, if current Levels of sexual activity contraceptive practice and abortion among teen agers continue 21 percent of today s 14-year-Olds can expect to give birth 15 percent will have abortions 34 to 39 percent will have one or More pregnancies while in the teen age years. Teenage mothers Are much More Likely to be forced onto the welfare Rolls than those who defer childbearing. Half of the s9.4 billion the government is spend ing on Aid to families with dependent children the nation s major welfare program goes to household with mothers who gave birth in their teens. Unwed but pregnant p by Ann Blackman associated press opulat10n experts blame the dramatic in crease in the number of illegitimate children in America on the fact that Many of today s consider themselves liberated but Don t use it no maths la one Young people did t use to let themselves get into this he said. Abo the Church has lost its Force in Many Martin o Conneu a statistician in the census Bureau Fertility Branch said another reason the number of Ille Eitl mate children has increased is that Many men no longer feel compelled to Many a woman they Havies. Dick was referring to a bawl i Tuy report show lag the annal number "s8 Ssu United states had nearly Natahn oed Between wands. Consideration is that Many illegitimate births use Ito be legitimized by the Man marrying the pregnant said o Conneu. A coauthor of the figures show that 5.4 percent of married women in1976 expected to be childless Only slightly More than the 1960 figure of 4 , the report shows married women want smaller families. It said that in 1960. About 37 percent of married women said they wanted four or More children. But in 1976, Only about 16 percent of the women interviewed said they wanted that Many. The report also noted figures which showed that in 1975 there was one Legal abortion performed for every three live births. It said the figure was a m percent increase in the ratio from the two previous years. A Man is no longer required to take an oath "�s3l udies about that unmarried women Are deciding they they have a future family 0 seats a generation Gap. Lof his ability to support a said quoting mates. I Sisa that a tvs Are Havlac " they re liberated but they Don t know How to prevent having Friday August 25, 1978 Bat the Rupart to Salked that those _ be the is if Ike rms tag Atje a Ahe Liili sat would have Tec Wisnia anyway Haik bar teme Coart not and Tatt to to Case Nam Duma m Thep Teetee. The report said that in ims White women received slightly More than two think of All abortions lion than 73 percent of abortions per Forred in that year were Dene of uncut Rcd it also showed that there were 40.0mamong Whites and �,000 such births among Blacks and members of other races in tit. Figures or uts showed 186,000 for Whites for Blacks and for other in 1md, them were St Allbon women to childbearing age which Art am u to 44. 0� tone a Muhota werewhlteandj.5mibobwerebuck�ndotherrace�. In uts there were a million woman of childbearing of whom 44,5 minion were what an Muon were Poge 13the stars and stripes
