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Nobody is saying they are leading a 'plush life'.  We're making the point that these girls have a choice to make.  Remain childless and work crappy minimum wage jobs for years, try to attend college which they are often poorly prepared for.  Or pop out a few babies and receive [b]some decent enough public assistance[/b].

These are teen girls looking at their immediate future who have already been living in poverty.

Somehow, make it more lucrative for them NOT to have kids.

It needs to be acknowledged that having additional babies, when you cannot support the ones that you already have, is not a good decision.  You don't seem to think that is at all part of the problem, but really, it is.  We're making it harder for poor teen girls to make the decision not to get pregnant when the alternative looks more inviting.  We didn't even discuss the social capital that comes from giving birth to Larlo's baby.  [/quote]

According to whose standard? More realistically, the choices are -- remain childless and work crappy minimum wage jobs for years, have children and work crappy minimum wage jobs for years with inadequate public assistance, have children and work crappy minimum wage jobs for years without inadequate public assistance.

Yes, poor girls -- and boys -- need better choices. Teenage mothers aren't poor because they're teenage mothers; they're teenage mothers because they're poor. You can't make a good choice when there is no good choice. [/quote]

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