But anything that can cajole or entice more young women into staying in school and delaying pregnancy improves their chances of never going on welfare (and, of course, of earning much more than the current generation of working single mums).
"They begin to realise they have to stay in school to achieve what they want in life - and teenage pregnancy is one of the biggest factors against staying in school, " she added.
Last year, a student concealed her pregnancy and then secretly gave birth at the school.
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For teens, there are drop-out and adolescent-pregnancy prevention programs, as well as after-school and literacy programs, among many other services.
Spending more time in school did reduce the probability of a teenage pregnancy, but on a much smaller scale than the effect of a pregnant sister.
Obstacles to girls enrolling in or completing school include harmful practices such as early marriage and pregnancy, gender stereotyping and gender-based violence, as well as discrimination in the learning environment that overlaps with poverty and geographic isolation, as well as wider forms of injustice against women and girls.
And yet somehow despite all the obvious pitfalls with true love between an impoverished teenaged human girl and a century old and super rich vampire man, their marriage as soon as she graduates from high school, her life-ending (and vampire beginning) pregnancy, people around the world have paid money in record numbers to see Breaking Dawn Part 2.
"Despite enormous advances for women and girls in education since 1972, schools across the country continue to bar pregnant and parenting students from activities, kick them out of school, pressure them to attend alternative programmes, and penalise them for pregnancy-related absences, " the centre said in the report.
And it is tackling the long-term causes of child poverty through policies aimed at pre-school children in poor areas, and a new programme designed to cut teenage pregnancy.
Some 76% of those questioned felt that abortion should be discussed as part of sex education at school and 73% said they wanted greater access to information on issues like sex, pregnancy, contraception and abortion.
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