guess what..I did all of that. There were a couple of winters where my wife and I and our two kids all slept in the same room in the same bed because we could not afford to run the heat. I've taken countless cold winter morning showers because I turned the hot water heater off to reduce the electric bill. I've lived off of nothing more than rice, beans and a few vegatables we grew in pots on our back porch for months at a time. I wore the same pair of shoes 7 days a week for 5 years. I once went 3 days with a broken wrist, hoping it was only badly sprained, because I didn't have insurance and I had to choose between paying a doctor and paying rent. I have a lovely scar on my leg from where I cut it WORKING construction and I stitched it up myself with a sewing needle and thread because we couldn't afford for me to go to the doctor.
I also worked 16-18 hour days, 3 days a week and every weekend and attended college classes the other two days. I never got welfare and the one time I applied for food stamps they told me to qualify I would have to sell my 1964 volkswagon (this was in the late 80s) because it was an asset. When I asked them how I was going to get to work if I sold my car, they looked at me like I was crazy.
So...it is a choice, they can get off their ass and get an education. or they can NOT have 3 kids by the time they are 19. there are plenty of programs available to anyone who has the desire to apply themselves that will provide training or an education. If you are able bodied and not a drug addict or a criminal, join the military for 4 years and Uncle Sam will pay for your college.
If I can do it, anyone can do it. Unless, of course...I am just better than they are.