Aurakles

I don't have the stats handy, but I do work (as an educator) in the poorest (or second poorest?) congressional district in the US, and I can tell you that you are certainly correct. A few months ago my students and I did research on this exact subject. What we or rather they concluded is that education (i.e., formal education) is linked to socio-economic status, and education usually leads to more informed decision, which would in turn lead to lower rates of teen pregnancy. Still, this is not to say that there are no low-income communities with educated people or that affluent communities do not have incidences of teenage pregnancy. It is just that low-income communities are disproportionately poor and under-educated. We/they thus found that compared to more affluent communities, teenage-pregnancy is more prevalent in poverty-stricken areas. In fact, the numbers were staggering, but again I don't have the data handy. As to the original question, I have to agree with what some people have already opined. Physical readiness is not the same as intellectual or emotionally readiness. I work with young people that are physically ready, many that are pregnant teens, and trust me, from my first-hand experience and from their own confessions they are not and were not ready for not just the emotional aspect of sex, but for the consequences, such as pregnancy and diseases. As to "educated teens," sure they exist, but academic education is never a substitute for social or emotional education, which comes with experience and thus age.

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