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pjc50yesterday at 9:38 PM1 replyview on HN

We spent decades fighting teen pregnancy for this?


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em-beeyesterday at 10:30 PM

the reason we have been fighting teen pregnancy is because as a society we decided not to support young parents, and because teen pregnancy happens out of wedlock with the fathers usually disappearing. i believe historically this comes from the fact that mothers used to stay at home, so as soon as you had a child you would not go to school anymore.

we could decide otherwise and create structures where young people, still in highschool or studying, are at the same time able to live together and have children.

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