Commonly, most teenagers who experience early pregnancy are high school students. If a teen becomes pregnant during high school, she may have to drop out of school and care for the child until the teen mother is more stable to continue her studies. To illustrate, (Collins, Felderhoff, Kim, Mengo, & Pillai, 2014) compared the fact that only 50% of adolescents who become pregnant during high school versus 90% of adolescents who do not become pregnant during high school in United States, I graduated from high school at the age of 22. However, some teenage mothers decide to complete their high school education or start working full time to care for their children. Regardless, it is really difficult for a teenage mother to get a higher education if she has to work to support her child. According to Collins, Felderhoff, Kim, Mengo, & Pillai, (2014) no more than 2% of teen mothers who had pregnancies during high school have a college degree. On the contrary, not having a college degree causes significant economic problems for the teenage mother; and it's very challenging for those teen mothers to be hired into a high wage job and not having a high wage becomes a lot