Ayock: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was really misquided. The problem with teen preganancy is that the mother usually ends up needing some type of welfare--whether monthly benefits, food stamps, housing subsidies, whatever.
Compared to the defense budget, the money spent on welfare mothers is a drop in the ocean, but as the U.S. population continues to rise, the financial burden is going to get worse.
Immigrants, legal and illegal, are putting the U.S. population on a flight path to the moon. IMO, when there are 350 million people in this country by mid-Century, it will be too late to turn things around. Within a century, we are looking at something like 450M. www.negativepopulationgrowth.org has the figures.