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Guttmacher researchers concur, pointing out that countries like Holland, Sweden and France provide far more generously for indigent young mothers, yet have low pregnancy rates. Research by Sociologist Frank Furstenberg of the University of Pennsylvania further refutes the notion that teenagers who become pregnant are simply looking for a handout. In following 400 young black mothers in Baltimore, Furstenberg discovered that most were "surprisingly motivated to get off welfare." In fact, 17 years after bearing a first child, only one-quarter were receiving public assistance...
Teenage fathers usually have lower incomes, less education and more children than do men who wait until at least the age of 20 to have children. One reason for this is that a teenager who has got his girlfriend pregnant often compounds his first mistake with a second one: dropping out of school. "When they leave school, they head right for a low-paying job," says Amy 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...
What kills the babies, most people agree, is Grand Boulevard itself, a problem that is not likely to be solved by technological heroism in the intensive-care nursery. It is easiest to blame the mothers. They are often teenagers who have got pregnant through carelessness and gone through the pregnancy in secret, with no prenatal care and little social pressure to eat right, say, or give up smoking. Some of the mothers are alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes...
...Miami. In a sadder episode a couple of days later, young Wide Receiver Irving Fryar, 23, the leading punt returner in the N.F.L., showed up with a severed tendon in the little finger of his right hand. At first he described it as a kitchen accident, but Fryar's pregnant wife followed him in bruises to the emergency room, and the team has acknowledged a domestic fight...
...Hawaiian island of Molokai, pregnant women who want a doctor in attendance when they give birth fly to neighboring Oahu or Maui. The five Molokai doctors who once delivered babies have stopped doing so because malpractice insurance would cost them more than the total of any obstetrical fees they could hope to collect...