[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

And I think that what KSUviolet says applies some too. At my first job teaching, I had one girl who had her second baby before she was a senior in high school. The problem wasn't knowing where babies came from or having access to birth control. It was just that if she saw herself working in the local K-Mart distribution center all her life, it wasn't that big impediment to her plans to have a kid or two.

Exactly. For example, in my community, almost everyone is college-bound (or headed to some form of higher ed) after HS. So having a baby is a pretty big impediment to that. It's also true that most of their parents are also college grads (or have some form of post-HS education), so that's what they see as the norm. Having a baby in HS or soon afterward is just not the norm.

In contrast, there are communities in which most girls aren't thinking college or higher ed after school. Their parents and friends had babies in or shortly after HS. They also didn't go to college or anything and just work at *insert local place in town where everybody works here* So having x number of kids and working at ______ is the norm.