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Teens Get $1 A Day Not To Get Pregnant
What teens won’t do for a little spending money! No, not THAT. In fact, the very opposite of THAT. A program from the U.S state of North Carolina is paying teen girls to NOT get pregnant. In addition to attending weekly meetings, the girls ages twelve to eighteen in the College-Bound Sisters are given a stipend of $US1 a day to keep their...
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Babble Wrap: Linda Burney Says DOCS Should Have Acted Over Pregnant Girl, 12
Linda Burney Says DOCS Should Have Acted Over Pregnant Girl, 12 NSW Community Services Minister Linda Burney admitted today her department should have intervened in the case of a pregnant 12-year-old girl. The Australian Gay Couples' Access To IVF Delayed Gay couples wanting access to IVF and donor sperm will have to wait for authorities to de...
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School Makes Teen Reveal Pregnancy
How far should a school go to get help for a pregnant teen? A mum in Texas says her daughter's school crossed a line when they forced the girl to reveal her pregnancy to staff, then sent her for medical testing and counselling. Considering it's a Christian school, it's not surprising the First Choice Pregnancy Center, where they sent the teen...
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Babble Wrap: Julia Gillard’s Pledge on ABC Childcare Places
Julia Gillard's Pledge on ABC Childcare Places Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the government will step in to help find new places for children displaced from former ABC childcare centres which have to close down. SMH Baby conceived with 22-year-old frozen sperm A MAN, who froze his sperm at the age 16 because he was being treated for...
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Teen Attacked by Mum Over Hidden Pregnancy
I would love to be the Dad from Juno. I'll tell you right now. I wouldn't be. I'd be the tempted-to-smack-my-kid parent if my teenage daughter waltzed into the house and dropped that kind of bomb. The difference between me and the mother of a Detroit teenager who is now in protective custody? I said tempted. Read more...
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Is Sarah Jessica Parker To Blame For Teen Pregnancy?
Damn that Carrie. All that cavorting around she and Samantha did on Sex and The City may have had an unexpected effect on teenagers - pregnancy. A new study has claimed that teenage girls who watch a lot of TV shows with a high sexual content are twice as likely to become pregnant, while boys watching similar shows are also much more likely to im...
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One In Three American Girls Pregnant Before The Age Of 20
US educators are hoping the national discussion about the pregnancy of the daughter of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Bristol, will renew the scrutiny of Federal Government-backed abstinence-until-marriage sex education programs. Sex educators have found the programs ineffective in preventing teenage pregnancy and the US now holds the h...
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Teaching Abstinence Doesn’t Work: Palin’s Preggo Kid.
This is a topic that's not gonna get a lot of play from the Obama camp. People would call bringing a 17-year-old pregnant girl into a political debate just mean. I don't care; I think it needs to be discussed because Bristol Palin's situation launches a fiery hot cannonball right into the heart of Sarah Palin's social policy: Abstinence training do...
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