Teenage pregnancy is a serious issue that may seriously affect the future of a young woman. Medical complications, emotional crisis, delayed education, smoking and drugs, trouble with finances, and neglect of baby. Too often, teens don’t seek correct medical care during pregnancy. Complications may occur during a teen pregnancy including anemia, toxemia, high blood pressure, placenta previa and premature birth of the baby. During pregnancy, your body is supposed to produce more blood to help support the growth of your developing baby. If you're not getting enough iron or certain other nutrients, your body might not be able to produce the amount of red blood cells it needs to make additional blood. Anemia is when your blood doesn’t carry enough red blood cells that are healthy to carry oxygen to the tissue and the baby. Toxemia, also known as preeclampsia is high blood pressure and high level of protein in the urine. If untreated, it can lead to eclampsia. Eclampsia is a serious condition that can put you and your baby at risk, and in rare cases, can cause death. Placenta previa is when the placenta partially or wholly blocks the neck of the uterus. An emotional crisis for a teenager is if she doesn’t want the baby. It leads to inappropriate behavior such as attempting to self-abort the baby or a suicide attempt. Delayed education is when a teen puts their education on hold, some decide to leave, or others put off their plans for college. Smoking and drug use for a teenager may not have the willpower to stop using substances that can harm the developing baby. Neglecting a baby is not willing or able to give the baby the attention needed. Also, trouble with finances usually after the baby is born. It’s expensive to raise a baby. Teenage pregnancies are often associated with social issues, including higher rates of poverty, lower educational levels and other poorer life outcomes in children of teenage mothers. Teenage pregnancy is a social issue because there’s a lot at risk for teens that become pregnant. Each year, about 750,000 teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19 get pregnant. Nearly half of the teens in the United States have had sex at least once before the age of 19. Also, it leads to many different social difficulties for women, such as dropping out of high school, poor health, poor grades in school, foster care, and committing crimes in their early 20’s. The worst part is the tendency to repeat their parent’s mistakes. According to The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, teen parenting cost the U.S. about $9 Billion a year in 2004. Lack of schooling makes it more difficult for teen mothers to find and keep well-paying jobs. According to the March of Dimes, more than 75 percent of unmarried teen mothers go on welfare within five years of having their first baby. Teen fathers also experience annual earning losses of 10 to 15 percent, according to The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Being on a low economic issues in life leads many teenage girls to have babies, which the poor outcomes seen later in life are simply the continuation of the original low economic issues. Teen mothers are statistically less likely to continue their education through high school and college. There is a very strong relationship between teen pregnancy and academic failure. Failure to obtain at least a high school diploma puts these teenagers at serious risk of a lifetime of low-wage work. The negative outcomes don’t end with the mother, as the children of teen mothers don’t perform as well as the children of older mothers on measures of child development and school readiness, and they don’t do as well in school. The outcome of being a teenage mother all has to reflect back to being involved in low and middle class background neighborhoods. Low-income women who gave birth as teenagers aren’t poor because they gave birth as teens; they chose to give birth as teens because they’re poor. In other words, class is the key. Teenage girls don’t see much potential for moving upward. They have babies earlier than they would if they were more successful. Teens with mothers that have little education are much more likely to give birth than girls with better educated mothers. Socioeconomic status can be determined based on income and education.