Nan I sometimes honestly believe pregnancy is something passed along in the water! Really! It spreads like a virus in some areas.
In some areas there are real financial incentives for girls to have babies, and the more the better. I know girls who were able to move out of their parents’ modest apartment, get their own more luxurious place in a good school district, and enjoy a life free of the need to work, all because of the generous local/county/state assistance programs for mothers and children. Especially in times of economic hardship when an uneducated girl is not going to be able to find work, this looks like an attractive possibility even with the 2 a.m. feedings.
The answer is found in welfare. WV has been a welfare state since LBJ’s great society experiment. It ain’t working.