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...told themselves that nothing could happen to them." Los Angeles Correspondent Melissa Ludtke found the teens she interviewed strangely reticent about sex. "The last thing they want to do is tell an authority figure that they are having sex. That rules out a doctor, pharmacist or parent who might give good contraceptive advice." She talked to Michelle, pregnant at 14, whose mother had given birth to her as a teenager. When Ludtke asked Michelle if she had consulted her mother on how to avoid becoming pregnant, Michelle responded, "My mom said she wouldn't get me birth control because...
...Last September she became so exhausted that she was hospitalized. She rarely gives interviews but told Annas that "she felt she was a prisoner of the artificial heart." Concern about their mother has added to the stress on the six Schroeder children. "The only thing worse than having one parent in the hospital," says Mel, "is having two." The sufferings of Jarvik-7 patients, further emphasized by the death last month of Swedish Recipient Leif Stenberg, 53, have led a growing number of doctors to demand a moratorium on permanent implants. Dr. William DeVries, the only U.S. surgeon authorized...
Such strong and controversial measures reflect the magnitude of the problem and its consequences. Teen pregnancy imposes lasting hardships on two generations: parent and child. Teen mothers are, for instance, many times as likely as other women with young children to live below the poverty level. According to one study, only half of those who give birth before age 18 complete high school (as compared with 96% of those who postpone childbearing). On average, they earn half as much money and are far more likely to be dependent on welfare: 71% of females under 30 who receive Aid to Families...
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...
This year's drop in oil prices produced a new cast of Wall Street winners and losers. It was a boon to the airlines, which got a break in their fuel bills. Shares of UAL, the parent of United Airlines, have gone up 12.5%, to 49 1/2. At the same time, oil-company stocks have been lagging behind the rest of the market. Amoco shares have slipped from a high of 70 1/4 to 62 1/4, and Mobil's stock has dropped from a peakof...