According to LA Times, "Estimated the number of underage marriage at 39,000 a day...But citing the statistic 70,000 teenage girls die in child birth or for pregnancy complications each year." This shows how a huge amount of teen girls each year put their life in danger when giving birth or during pregnancy, their lives and health are put at risk.

In the same article of LA Times, “In 2009 teen births in Mississippi cost taxpayers $154.9 million….Those costs include lost revenue from lower wages among teen parents, incarceration costs for the children of teen parents, and foster care costs….one of the biggest costs associated with teen childbearing is the poor outlook for teen parents' offspring, who often need public assistance.” The teen mothers had cost taxpayers in Mississippi a enormous amount of money and the reason to this was because not many teen were being taught or talked about the responsibilities of taking care of a child. There is a lot of cost that it put into raising a child and it is not just costing the person who has the child but also to the people because through taxes they are giving those funds though the wages and welfare that a teen may need to support her child.