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...contrast, the older sister of my recently married friend had a child out of wedlock many years ago. She gave their child up for adoption. Not the best way to bring a child into the world. And a classmate of my brother's married early last year because his girl-friend became pregnant. Not the best reason to get married...
...WEDLOCK, teenage pregnancy is associated with the margins of society. Pregnant teenagers are viewed as part of the disenfranchised youth, in league with the drop-outs, the druggies, the shoplifters and the punks. I couldn't avoid feeling that stigma, and at times half believing, however irrationally, that unwanted pregnancy was my just reward for being too loose with my "favors...
Analysts say the increase in out-of-wedlock births results in part from greater social acceptance of single motherhood. But other studies cite more dismaying factors: a shortage of men who earn enough to support a family and the high divorce rate. Many unwed mothers, says the Census Bureau, have come to believe that "they may be better off in the long run by relying more on the support of their parents and relatives . . . than by entering a potentially unstable marriage." But there is another problem: almost half of female-headed households live in poverty, compared with...
CAPTION: % of U.S. women who conceived out of wedlock but married before the child was born
...myth that a few hundred a month in welfare payments is a sufficient incentive to chuck one's husband or get pregnant while in high school. If it were, states with relatively high welfare payments -- say, about $500 a month per family -- would have higher rates of out-of-wedlock births than states like Louisiana and Mississippi, which expect a welfare family to get by on $200 a month or less. But this is not the case...