Soon to be renamed, "Ted Kennedy High" Oct 15, 2009 9:35 pm US/Central Why Did 1 In 7 Girls Get Pregnant At Robeson High? Officials Say A Mix Of Factors Are To Blame, As They Try To Help The Young Women Reporting Kristyn Hartman CHICAGO (CBS) ― [Click to zoom.] Click to enlarge 1 of 1 About one in seven girls at Robeson High School are pregnant. Officials say a variety of factors are to blame. It is a Chicago public school full of energy and spirit. It has about 800 girls, and 115 of them have something in common â something you might find disturbing. CBS 2's Kristyn Hartman reports. All those young ladies are moms or moms-to-be at Paul Robeson High School. It's not a school for young mothers, it's a neighborhood school. And all of the pregnancies have happened, despite prevention talk. If you want to know why, the people closest to the situation say there's no simple explanation. Chicago Public Schools says it does not track the overall number of teen moms in the district. But Robeson Principal Gerald Morrow knows the count at his school in Englewood: 115 young ladies who are either expecting or already have had children. To put it in perspective, their school pictures would fill roughly six pages of their high school year book. Why is it happening at Robeson? "It can be a lot of things that are happening in the home or not happening in the home, if you will," Morrow said. Absentee fathers are another factor, he said. LaDonna Denson and two other Robeson students say parents not talking to teens and, in some cases, the pursuit of public assistance also factor into the pregnancies. None of them thought they'd be moms at such a young age. They said they have support at home. But not all girls do, they said. In fact, some girls get thrown out of the home. Not on Morrow's turf. "We're not looking at them like 'Ooh you made a mistake,'" he said. "We're looking at how we can get them to the next phase, how can we still get them thinking about graduation?" So there's help in a teen parent program. And coming soon, right across from Robeson, developers are turning a one-time crack house into a day care for student use. "We have to provide some type of environment for them and some form of support for them," Van Vincent, CEO of VLV Development, said. It's all made an impression. "Just cause you have a baby, that doesn't mean your life is over," one student said. One thing they might not know about their principal: His mom had him when she was 15. That's why accepting the problem -- and working through it -- is so important to him. (© MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
I'm not quite sure what the point of the article is. There's no simple explantion. We know. It's been studied ad nausem. Is there a problem? None that I can think of. There is support in place, the medical will be provided, free gov housing, food stamps, day care if they want to work, we have foster care system and jail if needed for when people get older, we have rehab for the substance abuse. Perhaps, the issue is to get these kids to graduate. I'm not sure why, maybe to appease the teachers union. The whole issue isn't all that newsworthy, maybe 20 years ago people might think there's a problem but Ho hum, not anymore.
My girlfriend thought she might be pregnant, so I bought her one of those home pregnancy tests. I took the stick out of the box, told her to go into the toilet and do her business on it. Five minutes later I shouted, "has it turned blue yet?" She said, "no, it's still brown."
Now she's pregnant, my wife has asked me to help out a little around the house. I put a couple of vending machines in the kitchen.
That hippy flower powered looney from the 70s - Timothy O'Leary has left a legacy of broken homes, hearts etc. etc. with his philosophy of turning on and dropping out. But who cares - it made it that much easier with less competition. whatever happened to him btw ? 'Came a banker maybe
Grandmother and her grandson sitting down for dinner when the Grandson says" Hey Grandma , I cant find my pills have you seen them anywhere, they're marked LSD," Grandmother turns and says "fuck your pills, we have bigger problems, check out the dragons in the kitchen".
A Saudi couple, Ahmed and Layla, preparing for their wedding, meet with their Mullah for counseling. The Mullah asks if they have any last questions before they leave. Ahmed asks,'We realize it's tradition in Islam for men to dance with men, and women to dance with women. But, at our wedding reception, we'd like your permission to dance together.' 'Absolutely not,' says the Mullah.'It's immoral. Men and women always dance separately.' 'So after the ceremony I can't even dance with my own wife?' 'No,' answered the Mullah,'It's forbidden in Islam.' 'Well, okay,' says Ahmed,'What about sex? Can we finally have sex?' 'Of course!' replies the Mullah,'Allahu Akbar!(GOD is great) Sex is OK within marriage, to have children!' 'What about different positions?' asks the man. 'Allahu Akbar! Mafi Mushkila (no problem),' says the Mullah. 'Woman on top?' Ahmed asks. 'Sure,' says the Mullah.'Allahu Akbar. Go for it!' 'Doggy style?' 'Sure! Allahu Akbar!' 'On the kitchen table?' 'Yes, yes! Allahu Akbar!' 'Can I do it with all my four wives together on rubber sheets with a bottle of hot oil, a couple of vibrators, leather harnesses, a bucket of honey and a porno video?' 'You may indeed.. Allahu Akbar!' 'Can we do it standing up?' 'No, absolutely not!' says the Mullah.' 'Why not?' asks the man. 'Because that could lead to dancing!