Have you ever looked at a teen couple and just knew there's a good chance they'll have a baby before finishing high school. It seems to me that there are generally two types of teen dads. One is white guy with short hair or shaved head, thin beard, and probably some tattoos. The other is a black guy dating a while girl. Those types just seem more likely to become parents at a young age.

There are probably real-world statistics that can provide predictive factors for which teen couples will result in progeny. And perhaps there would be a correlation with the variables you mentioned due to cultural patterns. I don't know if anyone's studied it from that angle.

When teens discover the opposite sex it is not a question of will they make a baby it is when they will make a baby. I don't think race or the common characteristics mentioned here have anything to do with it. Parenting seems to be losing quality the more years go by and it is a well-known fact that children are likely to repeat mistakes made by their parents if they don't learn a better example. When I see a teen girl I think to myself she will be pregnant before she is 21. It doesn't matter if she is single at the moment I see her. I just know there is a real good chance at some point in her young life she is going to open her legs, take a load, and get knocked up.

(September 9, 2021, 10:46 am)Archangel Have you ever looked at a teen couple and just knew there's a good chance they'll have a baby before finishing high school. It seems to me that there are generally two types of teen dads. One is white guy with short hair or shaved head, thin beard, and probably some tattoos. The other is a black guy dating a while girl. Those types just seem more likely to become parents at a young age.

No since that's straight up profiling. In fact, when I was in school the only "couple" who got pregnant was an honor roll student and the daugther of the gym teachers. Both of which strikley contrast your two examples.

I dont think there is a determining factor.  There are sadly some cultures where that is a precived stereotype.  My wife is from the Rez, no high school education didnt have her first kid until 26.  I was in very remedial math my Sophomore and Jr. Year of high school (2nd time I brought up HS math on here) but it was me and 3 girls and 2 of the 3 were teen moms.  Both from decent families who had their babies freshman year before I got there

The only people I thought that would be that way never were soooo.... and this is coming from someone whose got a good track record of predicting who will get knocked up when.

I thought this about a neighbor once and I was right