Children & Families

Teenage Mothers: Girls who attend schools where violence, drug use, and crime are problems are more likely than other teenagers to become mothers before they finish high school, concludes a recent study by Child Trends, a nonprofit, Washington-based research center.

The study, which looked at female students over a four-year period, beginning in 8th grade, found that those in safer schools were less likely to become mothers.

In addition, the report says, girls who said they expected to be successful in school and to complete college were less likely than those without such plans...