Teenage mothers also get a bad rap from the media as they are the focus of social instability by having children out of wedlock and inflating poverty numbers. These mothers, accused of raising criminals, actually have a tendency to work harder to support their children in what Joan Moore, an expert on delinquent girls, calls “a conversion to conventionality” (The Culture, 1999). Oddly, the fathers of these illegitimate children rarely receive bad press for the role they play in the epidemic of unmarried teenagers.