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Wait, this was my initial reaction when I first looked at the data too. But then I realized that the age range for the data was 15-19!!! Jesus Christ! Only 10% of girls over the age of 19 were unmarried?!? And some were in the age range of 15! How on earth could that be a good thing? I fully support the lowered teenage pregnancies and to hell with the higher rate of unwed mothers. To me the damage of forcing that many young teenagers into marriage just to avoid the shame of having a child out of wedlock is ridiculous and is drastically worse than the impact the unwed mothers will have on society.
then, again, maybe you could read the data and realize that it's not saying teen pregnancies have been lowered. It's saying live births have been lowered. But only marginally, and the number of unwed teen momma's grew by a staggering amount, thanks to the policies of the left.
You're making assumptions regarding the basis of the marriage that are not found in the data provided, and are thus irrelevant to the discussion.