Teen Pregnancy & Poverty: The Economic Realities (Teen Pregnancy Prevention Library)
Family Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
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,...
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 [...]
If Sam Tarran Was In Charge (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
A terrific post by The Heresiarch on continuing calls to lower the voting age to 16 ( via DK ): ... in other ways, at sixteen many youngsters are much less "adult" than they were even a generation ago. That's certainly the message that is coming from the government. New restrictions on the freedom and capacity of teenagers have been brought in continually under New Labour. The age at which...
The Devil's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I can't find a link for this (please put one in the comments), but I heard on the radio a couple of days ago that Gordon Brown had re-affirmed his belief that people should be allowed to vote at 16. This is presumably because Gordon believes that teenagers, being generally ignorant, would be more likely to vote for a socialist party. Or perhaps Gordon genuinely thinks that a sixteen year old is, in...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Task Force Finds That Abstinence-Only Programs Don't Reduce Teen Pregnancy By Daniel J. DeNoon WebMD Health News Reviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MD Nov. 6, 2009 -- There's no evidence that abstinence-only sexual education programs cut teens' risk of sexually transmitted disease, HIV, or pregnancy, a task force of public health experts finds. But the panel finds that sex ed that includes information about...
StarrsView (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
When I was nineteen, I took care of three little boys for a week. I was "not the mama" to a six year old, a four year old, and an almost two year old while their parents were in Cancun. I learned a lot in that week. The most important was that I would NEVER do anything to become an unwed mother. (I still think caring for someone's children would significantly reduce teen pregnancy rates.)...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The reliable way to teach kids about the birds and the bees? Comprehensive sex education. That's the conclusion of an independent panel that reviewed the glut of research out there on sex education and abstinence-only programs in a study released Friday. It found solid proof of its effectiveness in "reducing a number of self-reported [sexual] risk behaviors." No surprise there, right? After...
Min-Data UK (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... for compulsory [timesonline.co.uk] sex education [guardian.co.uk]! Spot [telegraph.co.uk] the position of the evil [news.bbc.co.uk] faith schools on this issue though; and note that, in reality (ie health statistics), the religious are some of the worst offenders (for teen pregnancy etc) who are most in need of remedial education because of the damage done by their retarded and retarding religious...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Did you hear the good news? Did you see the tiny, sad headlines as they crept across the Interwebs a couple days ago, as reliable as teen pregnancy in Kansas, as certain as bestiality in South Carolina? Fear and homophobia, sadness and confusion have come '...
U.S. News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
North Carolina program aiding at-risk kids needs to go nationwide.
Sara Ryan (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Another repost of my answer to one of Colleen Mondor’s excellent What A Girl Wants questions. Here’s Colleen’s question: Do you think historic MG & YA fiction addresses socioeconomic status more effectively than contemporary titles? Why or why not? Is it just easier for us to think of the Marches in Little Women struggling in the face of war than the middle class family down the...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The Baltimore Sun recently published an opinion piece and an editorial related to reproductive health issues. Summaries appear below. Susan Reimer, Baltimore Sun: "Those of us in middle-class, intact families have our heads seriously in the sand if we think" that giving birth or fathering a child as a teenager "can't happen to us," Sun columnist Reimer writes.
Feministing (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A study put out by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unwanted Pregnancy has found evidence that the majority of teens at risk of unwanted pregnancy are not from low income and/or single parent families. via Susan Reimer for...
Electronic Village (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
National Elder, 91 year old Dr. Edward W. Robinson, Jr ., is calling to action those individuals and organizations that are ready to step up and help him implement his solution to combat the rise in violence and other social ills that disproportionately affect the African American community (" THE PROBLEM "). For 65 years, Dr. Robinson, an author, attorney, activist, curriculum specialist,...
Mike the Mad Biologist (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
"If the president's [budget] proposal is enacted similar to what he recommended, it will have a chilling effect on abstinence education across the country...We're in a race against time to keep these people in business" So says Leslie Unruh , rightwing nutjob extraordinaire (and a driving force behind this ). I'm not sure why anyone in the Coalition of the Sane should care, in light of these...
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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
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