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We don't pay them to have babies. We help them to support babies they already have or are expected to have. I agree, most teens do not want to have babies, but they still want to have sex.
When we pay to support babies they choose to have, we are paying them to have babies.
The worst part is that this is terrible for the children involved. It negatively affects their longterm outcomes in life to be raised by a teen parent. Children of teen parents, as shown above, are more likely to be abused/neglected, do poorly in school, become teen parents themselves, and go to prison than kids from two parent homes, or even the children of older single moms.
Subsidizing teens as parents is part of why children are doing worse in society than ever before.
I see you posting a lot about how teens want to have sex, and nothing about what is in the best interest of the children of teen parents. I don't give a fuck that teens want to have sex; those who do and manage to get pregnant are typically poorly parented, and don't need to pass along their bad behaviors to another generation of children.
If we stopped giving them a check, teens would be less likely to keep their babies and parent them badly.