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Stomping on Yeti (Free subscription) | yesterday
21 Words or Less: Gregory manages to depict a town both strangely alien and profoundly human in a outstanding sophomore effort. Rating: 5/5 stars The Good: Phenomenal characterizations both in the protagonist and the secondary characters, Gregory manages to write difficult emotions with clarity and skill, the story manages to take a somewhat off-the-wall premise and grounds it firmly in reality, prose...
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Figleaf's Real Adult Sex (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Summary: A brief history of teen pregnancy policy and how, long before I found this domain name, it motivated me to start blogging. Actually I can answer part of my previous question, about whether the boyfriend is likely to disappear if his girlfriend becomes pregnant . In fact it was the second issue that made me decide to try to start a political blog, back when a domain name cost $1000 a year...
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Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Chicago Tribune Administrators at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Ill. spiked today's edition of The Statesman because of stories on drinking and smoking by honor students, teen pregnancy, and shoplifting. The Student Press Law Center's director says: "It is irresponsible to withhold this information so they can protect their fantasy image of Stevenson as a place where no one has ever...
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Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Administrators didn't like 3 stories about honor students smoking and drinking, teen pregnancy, and shoplifting Administrators at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire spiked Friday's edition of the school's award-winning newspaper because of concerns about stories on drinking and smoking by honor students, teen pregnancy, and shoplifting, the editor said.
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Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Administrators at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire spiked Friday's edition of the school's award-winning newspaper because of concerns about stories about substance use by honor students, teen pregnancy and shoplifting, the editor-in-chief said. Press-freedom advocates bashed the decision. "It is irresponsible to withhold this information so they can protect their fantasy image of Stevenson...
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Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
By Jarvis Tyner Political Affairs | 11-02-09 Today we are faced with a major economic crisis, but along with it there is also a deepening moral crisis of US capitalism. However, the people who are always finding fault with poor people, from teen pregnancy to deadbeat dads, are not speaking out about the immorality of the sub-prime robbery that resulted in mass foreclosures, especially for Black and...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Prince Charles is wary of Ed Balls's curriculum reforms, says one of his advisers. Is he just being old-fashioned, or has he got a point You know what they say about history. It's just one thing after another. Well, perhaps so, but there's a gleam in Ed Balls's eye that says that won't be the case for much longer. The schools secretary is planning a new curriculum for all primary schools that will...
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jillstanek.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
by Kelli Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs... From Culture Campaign : a NJ high school student has brought suit against her school administrators for violating her free-speech rights. According to the AP , the principal of Bridgeton High School banned the student from wearing a "LIFE" armband or participating in the Pro Life Day of Silent Solidarity because...
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Ivanhoe Broadcast News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Programs that help kids enjoy school are successful in reducing teen pregnancy rates, according to researchers.
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ProWomanProLife (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
I tend to agree with this op-ed in the Post today about normalizing teen pregnancy through shows like 16 and Pregnant. We shouldn’t make teen pregnancy look easy because it’s not. Neither are teen abortions. As a result, we shouldn’t also make teen sex look so easy. But the author won’t touch that issue: Positive reviewers have [...]
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John Smeaton, SPUC director (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The government has today accepted all the major recommendations of the latest report by the Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group. In a written ministerial statement today, the department for children, schools and families said that: "The Government has taken forward all the major recommendations including making sex and relationships education statutory within Personal, Social, Health...
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Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
– youth leader hopes skills training will help Residents of Moraikobe, Mahaicony Creek are concerned about the prevalence of teenage pregnancy and substance abuse in the ...
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Family Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
There is no question that financial gain can incentivize behavior. At 5, some kids may get a small allowance upon properly brushing their teeth. At 12, they may get a token amount upon taking out the garbage. In North Carolina,...
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The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Madonna once expressed an interest in producing the critically-acclaimed new movie Precious, author Sapphire has revealed. Sapphire claims the Queen of Pop was eager to be associated with the film adapted from 1996 novel Push, the story of an illiterate, obese girl battling abuse and teen pregnancy in 1987 Harlem. Madonna was among the first people [...]
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sonupt5@gmail.com | 07/25/2009
16 and Pregnant Episode 7 S01E07 Product Summery | 16 and Pregnant season 1 episode 7 promo Pregnant Life After Labor Finale with Dr Drew Pinsky will be an issue-driven forum on teen pregnancy. All six of the teen mothers profiled on season one of the series will participate in this event. Dr. Drew will discuss each girl’s episode, specific issues and challenges and update us on what’s going on in