California Education Code

§ 54741

EDC § 54741 Effective Jan 1, 1999Div. 4 · Title 2 · Part 29 · Ch. 9 · Art. 7.1

Statute text

The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:

(a)Adolescents, due to early pregnancy and childbearing, experience significant educational losses leading to a lifelong loss of schooling.

(b)Although less than a quarter of California’s pregnant and parenting teen mothers use welfare as teenagers, over time they make up a significant percentage of the AFDC caseload. Half of all unmarried teen mothers go on welfare within four years of the birth of their children and 42 percent of all AFDC mothers began families as teenagers.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 1078, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 1999.