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...breed of black academicians and leaders who have begun to acknowledge teenage pregnancy as a major issue for the black community. The National Urban League has declared it its No. 1 concern and last spring, on Father's Day, launched a program aimed at teenage boys, the often forgotten partners in the problem of teen pregnancy (see box). Says League President John Jacob: "We cannot talk about strengthening the black community and family without facing up to the fact that teenage pregnancy is a major factor in high unemployment, the numbers of high school dropouts and the numbers of blacks...
They are the forgotten partners. It is obvious but often overlooked: for every teenage mother there is a father, usually a teenager who finds himself treated as an outsider, receiving none of the solicitous attention that occasionally attends the mother and child. These fathers are usually depicted as churlish scamps, irresponsible hit-and-run artists out to prove their sexual prowess without a thought for the consequences. Until recently, no one even seemed to factor the father into the situation. But with the surge of concern about teenage mothers, several groups and studies have taken a closer look at teenage...
...hope to see Halley's comet the second time around. In 1910 our high school math teacher in my hometown, Nuremberg, Germany, took us to the medieval imperial castle, which overlooks the old city, and here we watched with awe the celestial phenomenon, never to be forgotten. Alfred J. Hopf Madison...
...fathers of these illegitimate children as neglected or treated like "outsiders receiving none of the solicitous attention that occasionally attends the mother and child." These teenage and older men are not the forgotten partners. In most cases the male abandons the female when she tells him that she is having his child. The double standard still exists in the area of teenage pregnancy. Sister Jean Kenny River Grove...
Where is it written that farmers are to be spared life's injustices? To even suggest there may be justification for murderous acts is unthinkable and wrong. Cecelia A. Welsh Northport, N. Y. Forgotten Fight...