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Such interventions come at a considerable cost. In Illinois, state officials calculated that teenage pregnancy cost $853 million in medical care, day care, welfare and other social programs last year. It has been estimated that overall, the U.S. spends $8.6 billion on income support for teenagers who are pregnant or have given birth...
Most programs addressing the problem of teen pregnancy are directed at the group easiest to identify and help: adolescents who are already pregnant or have given birth. The goals: to ensure that the girls obtain adequate prenatal care, continue their education and learn how to be good parents. Providing prenatal care has become a bigger problem since 1982, when the Reagan Administration reduced the appropriation for the Feeding Program for Women, Infants and Children, which offers nutritional supplements and medical care to low-income expectant mothers. The cuts, say critics, will prove expensive in the long run, because caring...
...proved to be a stickier problem. Among TAPP counselees, for example, nearly half who were not enrolled in school were persuaded to resume their education. Unfortunately, an additional 31% who had been attending decided to drop out. In New York City, special public high schools have been established for pregnant teenagers to encourage them to stick with it. New York has also established day-care facilities at 18 of its 117 high schools, so that mothers can continue to attend after they have given birth...
Increasingly, conservative religious organizations have got into the business of aiding pregnant teenagers as a way of discouraging abortion. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority has, for example, developed a nationwide $4 million program called Save-a-Baby, run in conjunction with an adoption agency. "We agree to assist girls who are fixing to have an abortion, if they will let the baby live," says Jim Savley, the program's executive director...
...after the girl has given birth in order to present gifts of condoms and contraceptive foam, along with something for the baby. Increasingly, programs like the Door in New York and Crittenton Center in Los Angeles have extended their contraceptive-counseling programs to teens who have not yet become pregnant. Crittenton purposely holds discussion groups that mix young mothers with other adolescents to reinforce the lessons on birth control. "When they see how hard it is to be a mother," says Executive Director Sharon Watson, "they don't get pregnant...