Additionally, the more important impacts at the level of the children of adolescent mothers are represented by the "shorter and longer term impact […], especially in terms of their physical and emotional development" (Arai, 2009).
At the level of their own behavior, the children of adolescent mothers are more likely to develop aggressive manners of conduct, and they will also have a higher degree of developing cognitive difficulties. They also reveal higher rates of high school drop out (77 per cent graduation rate for children of teen parents as opposed to 89 per cent graduation rate for children of more mature women) and the crime rates among this population of youth from adolescent mothers is higher than the crime rate among youth from older mothers -- 10.3 per cent incarceration rate versus 3.8 incarceration rate for the second category (the Florida State University).
Aside from the child and the mother, the phenomenon of adolescent pregnancy also generates a series of important impacts for the community. As it has already been mentioned, children of teenage mothers tend to engage...
Also, at the level of costs, teenager pregnancies are considered riskier, and they as such require more medical support, consuming more taxpayer money (Hermes). Furthermore, most teenage mothers require state aid, meaning that the federal budgets are impacted and the sums allocated to these endeavors are retracted from other community investments.
