"In retrospect, several of my childhood girl friends got pregnant before high school graduation (a few before junior high school) and none of them were from poor families."
I am speaking from experience rather than from statistics so I guess this is for the original poster.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "To be as good as someone else is no high ideal...I am myself." - Paul Robeson
! 5{ erience to live in fear isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave." - Roy in "Blade Runner"
"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own." --Paulo Coelho, "The Alchemist"
"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path" --Morpheus in "The Matrix" (and a Buddhist philosophy)
"It's our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"- Dumbledore to Harry Potter "Chamber of Secrets"