Wow, I'm surprised you even found that article. Lol. I have mixed feelings on your solutions. I worked with underage teens a lot, mostly females. Most that came in pregnant were from foster homes. Girls that age that have been deserted by their families often get pregnant just to have a family of their own by getting pregnant. They haven't been taught or even loved as they are more likely than not being abused in the foster homes as well. They are being supported by the state and their babies taken into custody. That's why most young girls in those circumstances run away and end up in gangs. As for seperating boys from girls in schools, I don't think it would make much difference..where there's a will, they'll find a way to hook up. Lol. I agree support enforcement should be stricter.
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Yeah, the foster care system is in bad shape everywhere here in our nation. About five or six years ago, I was reading the job listings section in my local newspaper, and there was an advertisement there looking for people to become foster care parents. I thought that whoever had published that advertisement had to be out of his mind, because people looking for work were not going to be in any financial condition to take in foster care children. Moreover, it looked like an invitation for trouble in that whoever responded to that advertisement would likely not be a suitable foster care parent, to say the least. Separating boys from girls in schools may not completely eliminate the problem of teenage pregnancy today in the era of Internet and cell phones, but I believe that it would provide more control for parents and even their teenage daughters to shut out any undesirables that these girls would otherwise be forced to confront every day at school in a coeducation environment. Therefore, there would likely be fewer teenage girls feeling pressured into having sex and becoming pregnant by these punks who couldn't care less about their future.