Your question makes no sense. “Are the Gloucester teen pregnancies the result of a “perfect storm” of outside influences, or does responsibility lie elsewhere?”“Responsibility” is not the right word to use here and it isn’t an either or question. The increased rate of teen pregnancies is a complex issue but it is thought to come from a confluence of issues – poverty is one of them. Impoverished teens do not have the same future orientation as others with college in the future so they look for immediate access to adult world. Baby making is it. They also are the product of Bush’s abstinence program which has done as much good as he has. It’s wasted money and accomplished nothing. Teens need birth control (poster above: NOTE: Teens have sex. It isn’t going to stop.) and they need the kind of education money can buy. They need to be taught how to focus on their strengths and how to use them. They need to know they are worthwhile and they don’t need casual sex to make them feel good. Poster above is correct: they cannot feed them. So, they need access to abortion so we do not bring in any more babies who will be tortured and abused.