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Teen pregnancy and poverty

2012-05-14 22:50:23.407435+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

So there's all the harping on teen pregnancy and how we need to keep kids on the straight and narrow 'til we can get 'em married and employed (and we have idiocy like Tennesee's recently enacted gateway sexual behavior law which addresses hand-holding and kissing), but what if you followed the economic health of young women who miscarry? Apparently it isn't the children who lead to the poverty.

Slate.com: Teen moms: How poverty and inequality cause teens to have babies and not the other way around looks at Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment, Hotz, McElroy and Sanders.

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