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"Teen Pregnancies: What Impact Does the Pregnancy Pact Have on High School Students?" //Fertility Calendar, Pregnancy Calendar, Ovulation Calendar Calculator and Symptoms//. BabyMed, 2009. Web. 13 Aug. 2012. . __ Facts __
 * 1) One of the most covered pregnancy pact occurrences is a recurring problem for Frayser High School in Memphis, Tennessee. More than 25% of teen girls in the high school get pregnant before they graduate with a high school diploma.
 * 2) The national average is 10%. The school has a high African-American population and students tend to come from less affluent backgrounds. About 58% of African-American girls conceive while in their teens.
 * 3) Latino girls run a close second at 53% of teen girls conceiving in their teens. The United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancies of any western country.
 * 4) Teen girls who conceive in high school are less likely to graduate from high school and go on to a college education. Many are single mothers left working low paying jobs to make ends meet.
 * 5) Educators are striving to stop teen pregnancies with “No Baby” campaigns educating teen girls on the life-long impact of pregnancy and motherhood, but teen pregnancies were not always considered abnormal.
 * 6) With a shift in motherhood from teen years to 20s, 30s and 40s, teen pregnancies have become taboo.
 * 7) Teen girls conceiving in high school are now considered to be throwing away their education and future, but many still have grandmothers or great-grandmothers they look up to who started having children just as young.
 * 8) The pregnancy pact come is when that teen feels that thats the only they she can turn to . She no longer feels it worth it.
 * 9) There is a possibility she entered a pregnancy pact in much the same way other teens enter gangs. The pregnancy pact offers teen girls companionship and a “family” of sorts well before baby is born.
 * 10) If social issues in middle school and high school are forcing young girls into pregnancy pact situations, educators and parents may want to look at the root cause behind why the teen entered into the pregnancy pact and not so much the fact that she is having sex earlier than expected.
 * 11) While pregnancy pact pregnancies are clearly concerning, there may be a deeper problem to consider than teens having children. A pregnancy pact may be a social connection for teen girls.
 * 12) This is also a social connection due to what most teens deal with it. It may be the only way they feel that they can connect with somebody else or even the world.