This article doesn&#x27;t mention the religious communities where young people commonly marry and start having children before age 20.<p>A friend of mine grew up in one such fundamentalist community in rural Iowa; she married at 20, but some of her peers were already moms by that age.  I wonder whether they include this type of parent in the statistics, or are they only talking about unwed mothers here?<p>There seem to be a lot of rural counties in the first quintile of teenage pregnancy, and I venture to guess that some of them, the ones not in large cities or general urban areas, are traditional or fundamentalist communities where teenage girls often marry.<p>Unfortunately, our socio-economic system (outside these specialized communities) is just not set up to accommodate pregnancy at the age when we are most fertile.  It&#x27;s too bad, given how many of us are delaying having children until our 30s, even 40s, and running into all sorts of issues for both the mom and the child; I have personal experience in this.<p>Anyway, this looks like a good trend, that kids are either finally &quot;getting it&quot; or else they&#x27;re simply too distracted by technological toys to be fooling around like they used to!