BBQMan is 100% right when he said "The only effective way to deal with this problem is to incentivize marrying before having children and completing a high school at a minimum. Concurrent with this we need to discourage having children when the parent, particularly the mother, is not in a position to care for them without government assistance."

Look at all the celebrities who seem to take pride in the children they are having (or fathering) without being married. The celebrities are both sports figures and movie stars. Kids hold these celebrities in high regard.

Even the teen-age daughter of the former governor of Alaska got pregnant when she was living at home. If the unmarried teen aged daughter of a strict families values person like Sarah Palin gets pregnant, it shows how hard it is to keep the kids from doing it.

Personally, I do not know the answer, but BBQMan is right in his thinking. We know the problem - but not the answer.