It’s a cultural thing.
The man to prove his manhood.
The woman to prove her love. (as an aside from the extra bene aspect)
Most are wanted pregnancies and no amount of prevention education will make a dent in the statistics.
After all they have no worry as to who is going to feed, cloth, educate, tend to the kids medical needs. The fathers have zero responsibility, no legal worries.
The mothers and children are looked upon as victims in need of our compassion and financial support.
Who is going to pay?
Why Uncle Sam, of course. He promised.
It’s not the culture that the Founding Fathers wanted to bring to the USA. More like Marxist pseudoculture.
We set it up that way, with welfare systems that are far more generous and certain than the low-skill jobs that the parents could hold down even if they were married.
“The fathers have zero responsibility, no legal worries.
The mothers and children are looked upon as victims in need of our compassion and financial support.”
That isn’t cultural; it is purely 100% financial. To illiterate people with no job skills, breeding is their job and they are paid monthly for it.