re: #106 ggt

There are tuition benefits available.

There aren’t full-ride scholarships available for all students, no. Mostly, it’s a combination of financial aid and loans, which are not free.

I’m not really understanding your confusion.

I don’t get why you think that the benefits available are the driving force in those women who have children young and without the means to support hem privately. First of all, this has been occurring long before there were actually benefits for such women, and it occurs in countries where there are no such benefits. So, on the face of it, your contention would be dubious. Second, there are sufficient alternate explanations— that we hold mothers in high regard, without necessarily thinking about whether or not their choice to become a mother was a wise one, and that we have a population that’s often ignorant about contraception or refuses to use them on religious grounds.