Teenage pregnancy is considered a high-risk situation due to the serious health risks it creates for the mother, baby and society in its entirety. Describe various risk factors or precursors to teenage pregnancy. Research community and state resources dedicated to teen pregnancy and describe at least two of these resources. Research teen pregnancy rates over the past 10 years for your state and community. Has this rate increased or decreased? Discuss possible reasons for an increase or decrease. Teenage pregnancy is pregnancy in a woman aged 13 to 19 years, which is assumed to occur in a girl who has not completed basic education, secondary education, has little or no marketable assets. skills, and is also financially dependent on his parents to live at home and is psychologically juvenile. Having a teenager discover she is pregnant, especially when the pregnancy is neither planned nor desired, will certainly cause enormous stress for the young woman and her family. But once this has happened, there is no other choice than to support the adolescent in order to make a wise choice for her at the time of pregnancy. A different emotion accompanies pregnancy, such as confusion and fear, while others may feel happy and excited. Adolescent parents and their children represent populations at increased risk for medical, psychological, developmental, and social problems. One of the most important high-risk pregnancy factors associated with mother and baby is inadequate prenatal care. Teenage pregnancy is considered high risk, not to mention that many receive less prenatal care than an older mother. Proper and appropriate prenatal care can reduce the dangers of medical problems that may be linked to physical defects such as intellectual disability, heart defects and cleft palate, defects of the face, fingers, arms and legs. Illegal drugs tend to cause behavioral problems in the baby, such as hyperactivity, miscarriages, stillbirth, feeding problems, withdrawal, and poor growth of the baby. Teen pregnancy rates in Georgia between the ages of 15 and 17 have decreased by 42 percent over eleven years. year according to ongoing monitoring of adolescent pregnancy rates in Georgia by the Ministry of Human Resources (2006). From 1994 to 2004, the pregnancy rate among non-Hispanic African-American teens decreased by 51 percent. The pregnancy rate among non-Hispanic white teens decreased by 48 percent. Although the number of pregnancies among Hispanic teens increased from 233 in 1994 to 964 in 2004, exact pregnancy rates are unknown due to lack of data on the growth of this population..