If you can figure out a way to reduce the teenage birth-rate in the US without involving this mess...go for it. So far, the only ‘solution’ I’ve seen is raising gas prices up to around $5 a gallon, which apparently restricts most teens to their house for weekends (which we’ve seen this price change actually affect the teenage birth-rate).
This issue has been going on since the 1960s, and frankly, I haven’t anything that really is successful yet.
Since the 'teenage birth-rate' has fallen like a rock over the past thirty years, the government has had to resort to some interesting math tricks. The scare used to be 'underaged pregnancies' - what most people would view as a teenager getting pregnant, one who is still in school and under eighteen years old. Today's rate includes anyone who is the father or the mother and 20 years old or younger (since they might have gotten their partner pregnant when they were 19.)
For those reported pregnancies where the state doesn't include the age of both the mother and father, the government 'calculates' a percentage of that raw birth rate and assigns it to being a teenaged pregnancy. The number also includes illegals who cross the border to give birth, or who give birth in certain designated hospitals in Mexico and in Canada.
Even with all this government fudging, the birthrate has fallen fifty percent from the 1970's levels where they were reporting only underaged pregnancies.