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...years of rule, when President Suharto talks, Indonesia listens. But in a political system so secretive that even insiders have a hard time figuring out what is being said around the President's office, residents of the archipelago nation are turning to a new source to follow the inner workings of the government. DeTik, an upstart weekly newspaper, is addressing once off-limits political and social issues, pushing the envelope of the permissible. Last week the government reacted with a warning shot that has observers wondering if the paper has perhaps pressed its luck as far as it will...
...life. Behind all the bureaucratic tinkering is a moral campaign against illegitimacy, aimed at persuading poor people to become stable, self-supporting workers before they become parents. If this crusade works, its supporters promise, it could do more to fight crime, strengthen families, and rebuild the fabric of the inner cities than any other antipoverty program on the table...
...working, the conservatives are saying. The problem is that there are too many single mothers in the first place. To critics like Bennett, author Charles Murray, former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp and their allies in Congress, illegitimacy is the underlying cause of poverty, crime and social meltdown in the inner cities. Far better to discourage people from having children before they are ready, the conservatives argue, than to burden society with weaving the safety net of jobs, child care, Head Start, health care and a collapsing foster-care network for those who cannot cope...
...counseling, a summer job -- and a guaranteed college education. All of that became available to Mims the year she turned 12 and heard about the Family Life and Sex Education Program of the Children's Aid Society, a social-service agency in New York City that aims to help inner- city teenage boys and girls to get a life before they go about conceiving one. The goal is to reduce teenage pregnancy in a sneaky way, not so much by preaching against sex as by bringing enough structure and accomplishment to the lives of the kids involved that they keep...
...says. "Young people who feel that way are rarely irresponsible sexually." Because it works with small numbers of kids who are at least sufficiently motivated to sign up, it's not possible to tell if the same program would be as successful with a full cross section of inner-city kids, or whether its potentially costly combination of close supervision and college-tuition guarantees could be duplicated on a wider scale. Even so, 10 cities around the U.S. have developed programs modeled after Carrera...