Becoming a mom when you're well along in your career, financially stable, and have a support team behind you still comes with many challenges. However, many girls are forced into much more difficult motherhood because they acquire this responsibility while still in high school. Being a mother enrolled in public school can be quite exhausting. As a result, myriad reasons ranging from lack of child care to discrimination cause approximately 60% of student mothers to drop out of high school before earning their high school diploma. (NSCL, Shuger.) This is extremely problematic because teen moms are already at a disadvantage in achieving their life goals, and dropping out of school statistically shows that the child will also be at an educational disadvantage. In fact, children born to teenagers who dropped out of high school are 50% more likely to repeat a grade than children born to women who did not drop out of school (Mendel). First of all, teenage mothers enrolled in a public school system face the difficulty of finding affordable childcare during the school term h...