Teen pregnancy is an important issue in Portland. Teen girls have to suffer from many health risks in their premature pregnancy such as health, social and emotional problems. Early pregnancy increased the chances of health complication in teen mother as well as her baby.

About one million teenage girls become pregnant each year in USA and 25 % girls give birth to their babies and others aborted or adopted their child. Infants born from teenage mothers in Portland are at the high health risks like low like low health, some kind of disease and many others.

Mostly teenage mothers are having bad habits like smoking cigarettes, drink alcohol and drugs during their pregnancy which provides so dangerous effects to their infants and themselves also. They can’t do proper parental care of their infants.

There are many group homes, centers and programs running successfully in Portland that teach teenage mothers about the parental care and suggest them to take nutritional diets during their pregnancy and after. They provide all needed information about good nutrition and about other ways for healthy pregnancy.