12/23/2004 03:59:38 PM|||Sarah|||

Very interesting, but also sombering, article by Larry Elder on teenage pregnancy. The statistics about children who grow up with never-married mothers (as most teenage mothers tend to be) show stark proof about how the cards are stacked against them. And, Mr. Elder contends that we are too accepting of these situations.

|||110383935893439795|||Out of Wedlock Babies12/29/2004 11:36:02 AM|||Anonymous|||Sarah,

Did you see this article on poverty from the City Journal?

http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_4_working_poor.html

There was a great summation: "To stay out of poverty in America, it's necessary to do three simple things, social scientists have found: finish high school, don't have kids until you marry, and wait until you are at least 20 to marry. Do those three things, and the odds against your becoming impoverished are less than one in ten. Nearly 80 percent of everyone who fails to do those three things winds up poor."

Amazing that avoiding poverty can be reduced to such simple mathematical factors having to do with your choices in life. If more kids knew to do those three things, less would wind up poor.

--Todd