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Preparing for the future Our youth Teen pregnancy and childbearing There are welldocumented links between adolescent childbearing and individual family and community characteristics. For example adolescents who feel connected to and do well in school are less likely than are other adolescents to have children. At the family level youth who feel connected to and supported by their families are less likely to have sex and become pregnant. Among females ages 1524 the probability of having had a birth before age 20 is higher for those whose mothers gave birth as teens and those whose mothers have lower levels of education.