Schemes- they are all a bunch of wasters

I think that the statement "People who live in schemes are all a bunch of wasters" is unfair as this is just an assumption and can be considered as stereotipical. I think that people who say that "schemes are full of pregnant teenagers, unemployed and semi-literate thugs on benefits" are wrong as they have not taken into account how these people ended up in this position. There are many factors which can contribute to this, such as, being born into a family of low class with little money or even unemployment which could have been passed down from generation to generation, and therefore they are victims of poverty by their own families. Also, just because people live on schemes does not necessarily mean that they can not achieve well in all areas of life and that they can not be bothered to work, it is most likely that there was a time of high unemployment and teenage pregnancies which were recoreded in a particular place but I cannot say what relation this has to the rest of the UK, and this could have therefore participated in creating this stereotype.
On the other hand, there is evidence to suggest that the rate of unemployment is rising as benefits are now easier to obtain due to government laws and entitlement to benefits and unemployment is now being passed through generations of families, as it can be said that people learn their social behaviour from their parents and this has a very strong influence on the child. This can be the same for teenage pregnancy as sex at a young age and before marriage is far more popular and accepted in society compared with previous generations so there is a higher chance of young women becoming pregnant. However I can not comment on the link between high teenage pregancies and unemployment in schemes as I have no statistical evidence, only theories.