Just one of the many Reasons I'm in Youth Ministry

I saw this and wanted to put an excerpt in on this.

Academics and policy-makers have known for decades that girls living in lower socio-economic circumstances are more likely than their wealthier peers to become pregnant. And anthropologists and social workers explain that teens who experience “despair” are more likely to turn to motherhood as a way to find meaning in a world where they see few other options.

Hope to the hopeless, that is why I am in youth ministry. That is why I do Big Ticket. That is why...

Here is the whole article.