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Why Are 1 Of 8 Girls Pregnant At Robeson High?

Officials Say A Mix Of Factors Are To Blame, As They Try To Help The Young Women

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 expecting.

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?

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?”

Sure—we just need more day cares—that’s all.

Everything we have done so far: Sex ed, planned parenthood, inner city intervention, every assistance known to man—all so wildly successful that we now have this here in Chicago and endemic across USA.

Whadya say–anyone have a good idea for a NEW program?

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        • I’m reminded a bit of arguments one can have with your typical person suffering from narcissistic personality disorder. Nothing is ever settled in such discussions: as soon as you think issue #1 is closed issue #23 appears.

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          p>MCRD simply acts as a fountain of things to discomfit liberals. When the first offering does not work, there is always another. Relevance doesn’t matter. This is not a discussion. It’s a game of Discomfit the Liberal.

    • He’s taking a single example school and, without delving into any of the specifics, using it to smear a host of putatively liberal programs.

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      p>MedfieldBlueBob’s response is the correct one.  MA has one of the lowest teen pregnancy rates in the country. What’s the difference between there and here?

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      p>I’d go further and ask how this school differs from others in the Chicago area.

  4. I assume you have one.  What exactly would you do about this?  As HR’s Kevin, asked, what exactly is your point?

  5. Massachusetts has one of lowest – if not the lowest – teen pregnancy rates in the country. Along with one of the lowest divorce rates. And a low domestic violence rate. Maybe it’s our water.

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  6. You appear to be making this a “liberal” problem.  Only it’s not.  

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    p>And if it’s epidemic (that’s the word) across this country…then let me point out that all those fine “red” states have the same problem.  Evidently, they’re practicing abstinence about as much as Governor Palin’s daughter did.  

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    p>http://www.usatoday.com/news/h…  

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    The highest teen birth rates are in the South and Southwest; Mississippi is highest with 68.4 per 1,000, followed by New Mexico, with a rate of 64.1 and Texas, with 63.1. The lowest rates are in the Northeast. New Hampshire had the fewest teen births with 18.7 per 1,000. Vermont, with 20.8 per 1,000, and Massachusetts, with 21.3 per 1,000, were also low. Decreases were noted in New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia.

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    p>And one more thing?  For every pregnant girl, there is an equally expectant young father.  This is 2009; this is HIS problem too.

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