They live in hell...most of them numb with alchohol or hard drugs, they survive on benefits because there is nothing else and having babies is the only way of increasing those benefits.

This patronising myth-making is repulsive in the extreme. Now I know why it's best not to venture below the line, which is a tabloid hellish realm in its own right. Still, folklore is folklore. In the old mill-towns pregnant underage girls were forced to give birth at their looms and as soon as their babies were born they put to work by being rolled across the floor so the fluff would gather on their bloody bodies. This fluff would be scraped off by teenage wet-nurses who were especially skilled at making felt hats for the gentry. Of course they got by - largely by recourse to hard drugs, alcohol, and by having sex with anyone who could find any sort of pleasure at all in their emaciated skeletal bodies. The average life expectancy was 14 years.