Friday, October 16, 2009

1 in 7 Girls Pregnant, Chicago HS

We're talking six pages of the yearbook, 115 young women, but there's help, yeah. CBS2Chicago:
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.
Oh, yeah, we need more Chicago style education.

1 comment:

tennismom said...

I'm not recommending this, but I predict a technological solution to the teen pregnancy problem: drugs to delay puberty. A google search of 'drug to delay puberty' yielded over 400,000 results. Here's a link to an FHA release detailing use of one drug to treat 'precocious puberty' http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/558330
currently defined as before age eleven.

Wouldn't many parents and school administrators appreciate a safe drug that would keep their offspring childlike for additional years?