Ok, I'll take your disingenuous approach of posting a quote and then claiming that I'm not drawing any conclusions
So here ya go, from the Alan Guttmacher Institute:
....Because poor and low-income teenagers are somewhat more likely than higher income adolescents to be sexually active and somewhat less likely to use contraceptives or to use them successfully, pregnancy is much more common among lower income teenagers. Poor and low-income adolescents, for example, account for 73% of women aged 15-19 who get pregnant, even though they make up only 38% of all women in that age group....
....As a result of differences in pregnancy and abortion rates, poor and low-income teenagers account for 83% of adolescents who have a baby and become a parent and 85% of those who become an unwed parent. By contrast, higher income teenagers, who make up 62% of all women aged 15-19, represent only 17% of those who give birth....
....Conclusion
Sexual activity is now common among teenagers in the United States, and there is little difference in levels of sexual activity among adolescents of different income levels. However, poor and low-income teenagers are less likely to use contraceptives when they have intercourse (although a large majority do), and thus are more likely to experience an unplanned pregnancy. When they do get pregnant, teenagers from disadvantaged families are also less likely than their more affluent peers to have an abortion; about 60% of poor teenagers and nearly half of low-income adolescents continue their pregnancy and give birth. All too often, the poorest of these young women have-and perceive that they have-futures that are bleak. They see little reason why having a baby now will make their lives "worse," or, conversely, why waiting until later will make their lives "better."
A major challenge for policymakers is to provide these young women with realistic incentives to wait. That means guaranteeing them-and their partners-access to the education and training that will enable them to get good jobs, which, in turn, will give these young people reason to hope that their lives will improve. It also means assuring that family planning and abortion services are widely available on a voluntary basis to all poor and low-income teenagers who want to delay having a baby.
Efforts to prevent adolescent pregnancies and births must be targeted not just at those already poor or currently living in welfare families, but at all women at risk of poverty and welfare, since research shows that most young women who give birth as a teenager do not immediately go on welfare. Eventually, however, many fall into poverty, and very often, welfare dependency....
So while YOU may not have drawn a conclusion, the Alan Guttmacher Institute certainly has. And as the text above shows their position is clearly that teenage pregnancy is almost entirely a problem of POVERTY and HOPELESSNESS. Notice that the they're advocating "education and training that will enable them to get good jobs, which, in turn, will give these young people reason to hope that their lives will improve". THIS is the education that will REALLY make a difference, not education on how to put on a freakin' condom! Not that that's not a good thing to know, but I'm just pointing out that I think it's overemphasized in the debate over teen pregnancy.
