>>>>In fact, the better the sex education in a state, the lower the teen pregnancy rate:
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>>The US teen pregnancy rate has decreased markedly over the last decade though it's still 85 per 1000 teens. Only Sub-Sahara Africa does worse, unsurprising when 47% of Sub-Saharan women in their 20s were married by age 14. The US rate is about double the rate of Australia, 50% higher than NZ and up to 700% of the rates in Western European nations excluding the UK.
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>>The European nations like to talk about traditional values, but also consider that the high Romanian rate is attributed largely to one ethnic sub group. Not PC to say so, but maybe poverty, tradition and ethnicity have a lot to do with it.
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>Poverty, certainly. I remember reading articles based on some study that said many low income girls get pregnant because they see no way out of the situation they're in (economically) so they figure "Why not?"

Unfortunately here it also helps them get access to social housing. The right wing would tell you the solution is to remove the social housing. I'd prefer some sort of carrot to a stick though.