Becoming a mom when you're well into your career, financially stable, and have a support team behind you still has many challenges. However, many young girls are forced into a much more difficult motherhood because they acquire this responsibility while still in high school. Being a mother enrolled in a public school can be quite stressful. As a result, a multitude of reasons, ranging from lack of child care to discrimination, cause approximately 60% of student mothers to drop out of high school before earning a high school diploma. (NSCL, Shuger.) This is extremely problematic because teenage mothers are already at a disadvantage in achieving their own life goals, and dropping out of school statistically shows that the child will also be at a disadvantage educationally. 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 (Mendel). First, teenage mothers enrolled in a public school system face difficulty finding affordable child care while in school...