Oh yes, I agree. I am all for helping them out but they must finish school and work. Which I really think is the way it is now, at least the working part. In my volunteer activities, some of the mothers receive assistance but they must work also. And I will say, since the new rules went into effect, none of them have gotten pregnant again. All of the sudden, they remembered to go get the patch or shot that last a long time.
I dont agree with forcing all women to work but I do think there should be some contingencies to getting welfare funds for pregnancy at such a young age:
Completion of school makes sense.
Cohabitation with the father (with exceptions for incest or rape).
Probably even some basic parenting classes.
Really I think this sort of thing was better handled was it was expected women wouldn't work. Society and charities took it upon themselves to address.
Now society presumes women will work and so the prescribed methods are condoms and if those fail abortion.