[livius]

Maybe in England, but here there are many programs for “teen mothers.”

[GeronL]

If we stop celebrating and rewarding bad behavior... maybe we’ll have less bad behavior.

[Tarpon]

Isn’t it cheaper to just get the kids out of school and on welfare ... Think of the unions first.

[Paperdoll]

Y0ou mean to tell me that government schools entice teenagers to have sex with sex education and free condoms, thenand then try to shut the door on their Feducation if one gets pregnant?

[bert]

They get tutors who come to their homes until 17.

[allmendream]

In the USA, when a gal in High School got preggers, they used to send them to the “bad boys and girls” school with the druggies and drop outs and discipline problems.

Then a gal successfully sued to prevent this, and was allowed to continue in her normal High School.

As a consequence of this, pregnancy rates in High Schools went up everywhere that this became the new policy.

Pregnancy, or the desire to become so, is highly contagious among women/girls. They see someone getting lots of attention and think “hey, that could be me!” and then they make it so.