The U. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Adolescent Health funds Pregnancy Assistance Fund grants to states and tribal entities for teen mothers who need supportive services in order to finish high school or college, receive health and child care, find adequate housing or pay for other important needs.
States receiving PAF grants use the funding in a variety of ways to support teen parents, including providing home nursing or childcare, parenting and life skills education, prenatal and reproductive health care, flexible schooling, child-father involvement services, domestic violence and sexual assault programs, community service centers and health care providers. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children provides federal grants to states to help low-income women and children under the age of 5 who may be at nutritional risk receive nutrition education, food and health care referrals.
A pregnant teen is eligible to receive WIC assistance during her pregnancy and up to 6 weeks after the birth of her baby. A postpartum mother remains eligible up to 6 months after giving birth or up to a year after her baby is born if she is breastfeeding. Children remain eligible until their 5th birthday. The position of the Teen Parent is a very challenging one in the best of circumstances, but often they are without the guidance and support of elders and are in great need both for themselves and their children.
Many Human Services agencies will tackle the difficulties faced by teen parents through a multi-pronged approach. By providing parenting courses for the teens, the Human Services agency gives the teen specialized guidance that is geared to help explain to a teenager the required behaviors and patterns of a successful parent. It is important to keep in mind that physiologically speaking, teens do not have fully developed brains when compared to adults who are older.
As such, they are in need of guidance that is specifically tailored with this in mind. The challenge of parenting is one that is significant for even the most mature and prepared adults, for a teen who has not yet completed their schooling, the proposition of raising a child is daunting to say the least.
In many cases, the teen is still learning how to operate as an independent person from their own parents and is not yet established as being able to fully take care of their own needs, let alone those of a dependent child.
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Research indicates that children of teenage mothers are more likely to be born prematurely and to be of low birth weight than children born to women who are older. Compared to children born to older women, children of adolescent mothers, in general, do not do as well in school, have higher reported incidences of abuse and neglect, have higher rates of foster care placement, and are more apt to run away from home.
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