>>> 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?"
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>Also it's true that the devil finds work for idle hands. The less productive work you do, the more important leisure activities become?

From what I've read, it's more underlying despair than idle hands. They don't see a way to a better future, so they take the future they can see.