From the number of kids waiting for adoption or foster homes, the best way that some parents could get their act together would be to abstain altogether. If you can’t do something right, why do it alt all?
I agree with you, but when one’s hormones are raging–as they typically are during adolescence and young adulthood–recommendations for abstention frequently go in one ear and out the other. For a particularly famous illustration of a parent’s advocacy of abstention being a total failure with a child, you have no further to look than Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, who now has two out-of-wedlock pregnancies to her… credit.