Inequality more punishing than poverty itself...
January 13, 2014 2:48 PM   Subscribe

… because inequality increases the barriers to upward mobility within the community.

“We have found that girls from disadvantaged backgrounds who live in places with a larger gap between the poor and the middle class are considerably more likely to give birth as a teen than girls who have similar backgrounds, but face less inequality. Income inequality is strongly linked to lower economic mobility — the ability to improve one's station in life. And so our findings seem to suggest that girls who don't see a chance to better their lives are more likely to have a child.”
posted by spbmp (1 comment total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Appreciate you trying to source the original science, but if people can't access it it doesn't make a good post for MeFi. Maybe try again tomorrow with other/different links? -- jessamyn



 
""To really drive down rates of teen childbearing, we need young women at risk of becoming teen mothers to see a reason to delay motherhood. They need to believe that they have reason to invest in their futures, and they need a viable way to do so. That is where we need to focus our efforts.

There is a converse that folks who continually see another avenue for social advancement seriously delay childbirth even dangerously so.
posted by jeffburdges at 3:05 PM on January 13, 2014


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