Teen Moms -- How do we change the trend?

One of my guilty TV pleasures is the MTV show "Teen Mom". For those who don't know this show is the follow up to the MTV show "16 and Pregnant" and chronicles the lives of four teenage moms in raising their babies, dealing with their baby daddies, finishing school, relating to their families and the myriad challenges any parent faces -- only theirs are amplified by the fact they are so young. I'm not sure exactly why I'm so into this show as it is a sad commentary on how flip some young people are about the biggest job they will ever do -- raise a child. Some of these girls are trying hard to be great moms and others are still caught up in boys and parties to the detriment of their children. But what I find most disturbing is the statistic I heard cited in the "After the Show Finale Special" -- 1 in 10 children born in the U.S. is born to a teen mother. Yes, you read that right 1 in 10! This is 2010 and birth control is readily available and affordable -- did you all catch the recent news story about an elementary school making condoms available at the nurses office? -- so I'm totally confused as to why these girls are getting pregnant. And why both the girls and the boys sometimes take the responsibility of parenthood so lightly. Some of them come from dysfunctional homes and but others don't. I am amazed by the one couple on the show who chose adoption for their baby and how brave they are in giving such an amazing gift to a couple who wanted a baby so badly. But more than anything I wonder what we can do as a society to change the trend of so many teenagers having babies. There are no easy answers but as long as the conversation is dominated by our religious and political ideology solutions are going to be hard to find.