Conclusion
These steps have the potential to main- tain the progress made over the past decade in reducing teen and out-of-wed- lock pregnancies. There are only two solutions to the problem of childbearing outside marriage. One is to encourage early marriage. The other is to encourage delayed childbearing until marriage. Although commonplace as recently as the
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1950s, early marriage is no longer a sensi- ble strategy in a society where decent jobs increasingly require a high level of educa- tion and where half of teen marriages end in divorce. If we want to ensure that more children grow up in stable two-parent fami- lies, we must first ensure that more women reach adulthood before they have children.