Racial and class differences in teenage pregnancy and childbearing rates are due primarily to

a. The amount of sexual activity of poor and minority teens as compared to middle class whites
b. Differences in the likelihood that sexual activity will result in a pregnancy
c. Poor and minority teens have greater physical ability to get pregnant because they develop early
d. Moral values of poor and minority teens as compared to middle class whites


ANS: b

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