It is a well-documented fact that for all teenage couples who marry,

Official Explanation

The main point of the passage is that pregnancy and a child put strain on a young marriage, and so such marriages would have a higher survival rate without the strain of children. It would seem, then, that encouraging such couples not to have children would help them stay married; but that will be possible only if they have not already committed themselves, so to speak, to having a child. If the wife is already pregnant at the time of marriage, the commitment has already been made, so the advice is too late.

(B) and (C) are wrong for similar reasons. It is not only the continued presence of the child in the marriage that causes the stress but the very pregnancy and birth. So (B) and (C) do not address themselves to the birth of the child, and that is the factor to which the author attributes the dissolution of the marriage.

(D) is wide of the mark. Whether society does or does not have such an interest, the author has shown us a causal linkage, that is, a mere fact of the matter. The author states: If this, then fewer divorces. The author may or may not believe there should be fewer divorces.

(E) is wrong for this reason also, and for the further reason that it says “do not plan” to have children. The author’s concern is with children during the early part of the marriage. There is no suggestion that couples should never have children.

The correct answer is (A).