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...fellow students conquer the rarified air of Goldman Sachs, right wrongs at the International Monetary Fund, and campaign against blind illiteracy, I am a camp counselor at a, to put it delicately, unorthodox children’s summer camp based in Maine. Its name: Camp Chunder Camp...
...Williams, the executive director of the Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Project in San Francisco. "Their own internal drummer says to them, 'If you are going to be a good father, you have to get a job.'" Few are able to perceive the trap they are falling into. Says a counselor: "Five years down the line, they won't have skills to qualify for much more than work in a fast-food restaurant...
...many of the young men there is also a conflict between the desire to provide for their children and doubts about their own abilities as providers. Says Tommy Milladge, a counselor at the Youth and Family Center in Lawndale, Calif.: "The paradox felt by teen fathers is that while they want the young lady to receive services, they are ambivalent because they can't provide for them the way they should. It defeats their masculinity." Until recently it was thought that this same sense of masculine pride would prevent young fathers from participating in programs designed to help them...
...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 Stengel. Reported by Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles and Jeanne McDowell/New York
Unlike Hungary, some 85% of Yugoslavia's cultivated land is privately owned, but the country gains little from that. Private landholdings average less than eight acres; farmers cannot benefit from any economies of scale. Says Davor Savin, counselor to the President of the Federal Assembly: "It results from the theory that socialism should prevent farmers from being old-style capitalists." Partly for this reason, Yugoslavs spend 65% of their income on food, vs. 35% in Hungary...