In my experiences, most of the women I knew that got caught up with the bad boy/thug, got their minds right after the first kid and then got their shit together and either didn't have anymore kids or if they did have more it was within marriage or long term relationship, where the father was present.
The rest tended to repeat the process till they hit their early 30s and then stopped because the body count was high, reputation was trash and nobody wanted to deal with their kids, which most times were horrible and in other cases special needs and their looks started to fade.