Word: assistive
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Increasingly, conservative religious organizations have got into the business of aiding pregnant teenagers as a way of discouraging abortion. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority has, for example, developed a nationwide $4 million program called Save-a-Baby, run in conjunction with an adoption agency. "We agree to assist girls who are fixing to have an abortion, if they will let the baby live," says Jim Savley, the program's executive director...
Programs designed to assist teenage fathers are still relatively few, but their growing number offers hope in arresting the cycle of children producing children. Terry, who is now 21, has a 17-month-old child and is himself the child of teenage parents. After being helped by the Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Project in San Francisco, he is now a counselor there. "My father was a parent when he was a teenager," Terry says firmly. "My mother and grandmother were. It didn't stop with me or with my brothers. I know it will stop with my son." --By Richard...
...ASKED THE POPE TO SUPPORT LIVE 8. IS THERE A CONTRADICTION IN ASKING THE WORLD'S MOST VISIBLE OPPONENT OF CONDOM USE TO HELP YOU ASSIST PEOPLE RAVAGED BY AIDS...
Think fast—what’s the best way to handle a team that loses its leading scorer and assist-leader from a year ago to graduation...
Maasdorp’s phenomenal year earned her the status of second-team STX/NFHCA Division I All-American. Her record-tying assist came in the Crimson’s first game of the NCAA tournament against eventual champion Wake Forest, by whom they were defeated 7-1 in November...