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Originally Posted by foxpaws View Post
Misogynist often - why yes, I think you do...

Of course fathers matter - but, there are a lot of factors that feed into the teen pregnancy rate - the first is poverty.

And since most teenaged pregnancies occur in low income/poverty neighborhoods, you probably have to view the 'missing father' equation differently than the misogynistic views above. In those areas fathers are often missing because they are in jail, or are deadbeat dads. Between the over 1.5 million low income dads are incarcerated at any one time, and are not working to support the family (obviously), and over 100 billion in unpaid child support by deadbeat dads, many of the mothers are left in poverty. And what else does poverty exasperate? The ability to get birth control, that too is a huge factor in teenage pregnancy.

So while some would love to paint women as heartless money grabbers, who deny fathers' their rights, I think you would find, in the case of teenaged pregnancy, the problem is complex, and that poverty is the largest contributing factor to teenaged pregnancy.
Das RACIST!!!!!!!

Be very careful, you are dancing close to the TRUTH and the TRUTH you are nearly exposing is definately NOT PC.

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