>>>Notice how the rise coincides with the "war on poverty"? See where I'm going with this?
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>Not really. Western European and especially Scandinavian nations have very advanced social support networks. And yet, looking at teen pregnancy rates since it has the association with poverty:
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>http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/graph/30862/teenage-pregnancy-international-comparisons
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first gut reaction here would be that teen preg rates would be different for some parts of the population PC described by ethnicity and poverty probably a factor also correlated with such population parts. There is a marked difference in # of offspring and typical year of start - which of course is at keast in part linked to job opportunities being availabale or hard to reach.