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"Kathy" Meagan...@aol.com

Teen pregnancy: Female juvenile offenders engage in sexual activity at an earlier age than non-offenders, putting them at higher risk of sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy. For many young women, teen pregnancy is a virtual guarantee of poverty and long-term reliance on welfare. Most teen mothers drop out of high school and remain single most of their young adult years. They earn an average of $5,600 annually, less than half the poverty-level income. More than 60 percent of African-American and half of all Hispanic teen mothers are concentrated in poor, racially segregated neighborhoods that have poor housing, high crime rates, and inadequate schools. Many teen mothers have been victims of sexual abuse. Adolescent mothers are more likely to raise a child who goes to prison than mothers who delay having children until their early 20s (Robin Hood Foundation, 1996).
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/principles/ch1_4.html Kathy

"Dad" adoptada...@comcast.net

But teenage mums are less likely to become juvenile delinquents!  Yea!
Dad

"Kathy" Meagan...@aol.com

Oh Lordy, but what's a mum to do?
Kathy

lainie.peter ...@gmail.com

But at least the baby hasn't suffered a primal wound.
L.

"Robibnikoff" witchy...@broomstick.com

What's that supposed to be like, BTW?  Everyone keeps telling me that I have one, but I haven't noticed it ;)
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Robyn Resident Witchypoo #1557 I think religion is so popular because even the village idiot can feel like Einstein without any effort. - Denis Loubet

lainie.peter ...@gmail.com

I don't know either, but the CB crowd tells me that I have it, 'else I wouldn't have relinquished my son.
Personally, I think I just inherited a long standing indifference to parenthood.
L.

"Kathy" Meagan...@aol.com

Have you looked in a full length mirror lately?
:::::::::runnin' like hell:::::::::   ;-) Kathy

"Robibnikoff" witchy...@broomstick.com

Hey!
Wise move, gr***hoppa ;)
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Robyn Resident Witchypoo #1557 I think religion is so popular because even the village idiot can feel like Einstein without any effort. - Denis Loubet

"yts" yourstruelysincer...@hotmail.com

Yepp, Dad and less likely to be in the hands of adopters to boot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!