[arthurus]

that I ought to subidize personal irresponsibility

Thus, I take it that you define pregnancy as "irresponsibility".

[steve-b]

Thus, I take it that you define pregnancy at the age of 17 in modern society as "irresponsibility".

Yep. (Statement corrected to re-insert the relevant context, in such a way as to foreclose irrelevant observations about the days when people often married at 15 and died at 40.)