What do you know?

Do you know what risks are out there for teenagers who engage in non-marital sexual activity?

Do you know that:
• Most teenagers don’t worry about Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
   because they don’t think they are at risk, but every day thousands of teens
   get an STD.
• STDs can cause serious, life-long problems, sometimes even death?
• Many STDs don’t have symptoms so teens may not know that they have
   an STD. You usually can’t tell by looking at someone if they have an STD.

STDs can cause:
• Cancer
• Chronic abdominal pain
• Infertility
• Diseases in newborn babies
• Life-long illness and/or pain
• Death
• Recurrent painful genital sores
• Damage to a woman’s reproductive organs

Did you know that babies born to teen mothers are more likely to:
• Be born too small or die during the first year of life.
• Have chronic health problems.
• Have learning and school problems.
• Get in trouble with the law, and
• Become teen parents themselves.

Did you know that teens who become parents:
• Are more likely to end up poor or on welfare.
• Have fewer job opportunities.
• Have fewer educational opportunities, and
• Are less likely to marry.

Source: National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.