How do low income neighborhoods correlate with high pregnancy rate? The drug problem within low income neighborhoods tend to over shadow other issues within these neighborhoods. One particular issue is the high pregnancy rate within low income neighborhoods. According to solutionsforamerica.org, “The birth rate remains high in low-income, minority neighborhoods, where the birth rate still remains at 153and 138 births per 1,000 for black and Hispanic teenage girls respectively.”
The reason for this might be the lack of parenthood within these communities, and therefore teenage girls have no one to watch over them. Some believe that there is nothing better outside the neighborhood, but to follow what they have always been exposed to. A lot of these girls mothers are on drugs and/or trying to raise the other children, and working many of jobs to get their children out of the these neighborhoods. As a result, the teenage girl has no one to have control of her and to monitor her actions. Therefore she is left to do what she wants such as have sex and to not think about the consequence, such as being pregnant at a young age.
