Subject: Re: Dems giving Trump a gift
"Don't get a girl pregnant until you're married and and can support" and "don't spread your legs for losers. "

Not opposing birth control, and proper sex education, would help that a lot. One statistic that has always struck me was that teens in developed countries become sexually active at about the same time. But in places like Sweden, teen pregnancy is almost non-existent. Here, it is pretty high. And I heard that Texas (with very puritanical attitudes towards sex) leads in repeat teen pregnancies.

All I'm saying - look at the highest incomes and lowest prison population demographics. THEN look at the lowest incomes and highest prison demographics. Then - contrast it with family structure and culture.

I think the "lowest incomes" has been pretty well established to be the culprit. Lowest incomes makes people more desperate. There's also a lot of legacy racism in that those families got established in poor areas 70 years ago, and haven't been able to get out. Schools are poor, people are poor, so a lot of the males end up in prison where they can't help the wife/kid(s), and the kid(s) grow up to repeat the same pattern.

And that's the simplified version. It's a lot more complex and nuanced than that; probably even more than I know.