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...producer and friend of the bridegroom's parents. Some of the shutterbugs brought their choppers dangerously close to the ground during the ceremony. The whir of the copters' blades drowned out the vows of Rock Singer Madonna Louise Ciccone and Actor Sean Penn, the girl and boy idols of teen America. Said one guest: "No one knew they were married until they kissed...
...this week's cover, TIME correspondents talked to scores of expectant mothers in clinics, schools, teen centers, adoption agencies and welfare offices. Angela Helton, 15, the blue-eyed blond on our cover, attends the Teenage Parent Program of the Jefferson County, Ky., public schools and is now the mother of a son, Corey. Photographer Duane Michals, who took Helton's picture and those of many other pregnant teens, observes: "They came across as girls, not women. They seemed to be playing house. A lot of them did not understand the enormousness of having a child...
Despite the discrepancy in statistics, teen pregnancy, as black leaders are quick to point out, should not be seen as a specifically black problem. Rather, says Jacob, it is a poverty-related problem. "It has a greater impact on the black community because it is a poor community." Indeed, poor whites as well as blacks tend to have high rates of teenage pregnancy. In the largely white community of North Adams, Mass., an old mill town where unemployment has been high, teen pregnancy is reaching epidemic levels. One out of five births at North Adams Regional Hospital...
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...
Nadal, who became the first teen to win a men's Grand Slam event since Pete Sampras took the U.S. Open in 1990, stays low-key when not crushing a ball. "A dream came true for me in Paris, but I will remain the same person," Nadal tells TIME. "It would be stupid to change." Raised on the island of Majorca, Nadal has athleticism in his blood. His uncle Miguel Angel, dubbed el Carnicero (the Butcher), was a bruising defender on Spain's national soccer team. Another uncle, Toni, taught natural righty Nadal to play tennis left-handed, a serving...