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Youngsters who get pregnant often have a history of feeling deprived and neglected. Many have been abused or raped. "Their getting pregnant has nothing to do with sex," observes Pat Berg, director of a Chicago program for homeless youth. "It's attempting in a perverse sense to get some security and nurturing needs met . . . It's like when kids get puppies." Finally, there is little social pressure to persuade them to postpone childbearing, notes Joy Dryfoos, who has conducted research for the Rockefeller Foundation. Middle-class girls tend not to have babies, she says, "because Mother would kill them...
...NORC. "Eventually these girls get married, but it might be years later and not to the father of the child." Young black women under age 24 are facing "a shrinking pool of marriageable--that is, economically stable--young men," explains Sociologist William Julius Wilson of the University of Chicago, who coauthored a 1985 study titled Poverty and Family Structure. The reasons he cites for the dearth of eligible candidates: unemployment, incarceration and an appalling rate of murder, the leading cause of death of black males...
...great to see you settled in your new job. Since the cruise business has slacked off a bit lately, I wouldn't mind getting back into journalism myself. I still can't quite see you fitting in at that seedy tabloid--what is it called?--the Chicago Eagle. But the consumer-advice column they've given you should...
DIED. Santa C. Claus, 58, white-bearded, 280-lb. year-round Kris Kringle, who made personal appearances across the country and worked from 1970 to 1979 at the Santa's Workshop theme park in North Pole, N.Y.; of an apparent heart attack; in Chicago. In 1980 Claus legally changed his name from LeRoy Scholtz...
MOST IRRESISTIBLE CALORIC BINGE Not to be confused with the soap of the same name, the DoveBar is old news in Chicago but attained stardom in supermarkets and on street corners around the country in '85. The hard-to-handle quarter-pound ice-cream bar has a crackling coating of dark chocolate candy. Invented in the early 1950s by Chicago Confectioner Leo Stefanos, this frozen dessert melts all resistance even at prices that range from...