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We had the same thing here under Thatcher: the teenage single mum who gets pregnant 'to get a council flat'. I daresay if you rtrawled the country you could have found a few girls who'd done exactly that...but mostly teenage girls had kids because they a) got accidentally preggers, b) had some vague notion of baby as somewhere across between a doll and a pet and hadn't really understood how tying and how much hard work they are, or c) they were troubled kids with a deep need for something that would be completely theirs, someone who would love them unconditionally.
There are other possible reasons. To suggest that across the country vast armies of girls were getting knocked up to get a council flat was disingenuous to say the least.
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