[QUOTE]A new campaign to prevent teen pregnancies has been launched in Memphis in response to a huge spike in expectant mothers at one area high school.
According to recent statistics, 86 students at Frayser High School are pregnant or have given birth in the last year, myfoxmemphis.com reported.
The new campaign – called “No Baby!” – is designed to educate both teenage girls and boys about how to prevent and deal with unplanned pregnancies. The program is also tailored to give girls the confidence to “just say no” to sex.
"Right now, these girls don't know how to say ‘no,’ they're having sex when they don't want to, they just don't know how to say ‘no,’" Deborah Hester Harrison with Girls Inc., which is a nonprofit group, told the news station.
Another concern for these young mothers is the lack of prenatal care.
“A lot of these girls aren't developmentally ready to be really effective parents, and that affects the child's development,” Marc Goodman-Bryan with the Urban Child Institute said.
Dr. Manny Alvarez, senior managing health editor of FoxNews.com and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Science at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey agrees and said those issues are just the beginning.
“Teen pregnancies are high risk. For some of these girls, the risk factors include premature delivery, pregnancy-induced hypertension and many times, you have a higher incidence of Caesarean sections due to cephalopelvic disproportion, which happens when a the fetus is too large to fit through the pelvis.”
Last month, U.S. health officials released new government figures for 2009 showing 39 births per 1,000 girls, ages 15 through 19 — the lowest rate since records have been kept on this issue Yet, the sobering context is that the teen pregnancy rate is far lower in many other countries.
The most convincing explanation is that contraceptive use is much higher among teens in most Western European countries.
Harrison said the teen pregnancy rate for Memphis fluctuates between 15 and 20 percent, which is almost twice the national average.
In the school’s zip code – the pregnancy rate is about 26 percent.
"We're looking at ways to combat it, and we're trying to combat it in the area where the need is the greatest," Harrison said.
In addition to the “No Baby!” campaign, Memphis school officials are also looking at ways to combat this problem by hiring new social workers, putting new programs in place, as well as providing support for teenage moms.
“It’s upsetting that we continue to see the rates of teen pregnancy ticking up in certain areas,” Alvarez said. “I think we really need to focus on education – that’s really the key.”
Read more: [url]http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/01/14/teens-pregnant-menphis-high-school/#ixzz1B8N05AWs[/url][/QUOTE]
Slags.
My work here is done.
Do these kids not know what a contraceptive is?
[QUOTE=J0E_SpRaY;27434313]My work here is done.[/QUOTE]
Damn it! beat me to it
Why is it any time something occurs within a school or that is related to school activities the answer is always "Education." "I think we need to focus on education."
and my mom teaches there haha
[QUOTE=Craptasket;27434337]Damn it! beat me to it[/QUOTE]
I was surprised I got it.
[quote=moby-;27434289]slags.[/quote]
skank!
Troll scool nurses, giving the students punctured condoms and Tic-Tacs.
Isn't it kind of presumptuous to assume they were unplanned?
edited: maybe i should have put a :v:
[QUOTE=J0E_SpRaY;27434342]Why is it any time something occurs within a school or that is related to school activities the answer is always "Education." "I think we need to focus on education."[/QUOTE]
Because the people involved are dumb fucks and if they even had a little bit of education this shit wouldn't happen.
Holy shit, a pregnancy rate of 26%? That's pretty damn high.
Turn everyone in the school gay.
honestly most ppl in my city(Memphis). Live nothing but to have kids.They have no ambitions and laugh at people who do. They think college is pointless and that you need to get any kind of 9-5 that pays anything after you graduate. An the people who do get out never ever want to look back.
[QUOTE=Fuhrer;27434436]Turn everyone in the school gay.[/QUOTE]
That's against the bible!
Who gives a fuck.
In the UK everyone under 24 gets free condoms from their local pharmacy. You also get them in schools.
My school only had 1 pregnant student in the last year
:smith: at who she was
[QUOTE=leontodd;27434462]In the UK everyone under 24 gets free condoms from their local pharmacy. You also get them in schools.[/QUOTE]
We need this in America. Now.
[QUOTE=J0E_SpRaY;27434461]That's against the bible!
Who gives a fuck.[/QUOTE]
So are condoms or something. le pope.
There were only about 2 pregnancies in my school last year.
[QUOTE=Hboybowen;27434344]and my mom teaches there haha[/QUOTE]
Is she pregnant too?
[QUOTE=gnome;27434559]Is she pregnant too?[/QUOTE]
wtf stfu.... she teaches their as a sub but graduated like in the 70s when it had some class.
[QUOTE=Hboybowen;27434443]honestly most ppl in my city(Memphis). Live nothing but to have kids.They have no ambitions and laugh at people who do. They think college is pointless and that you need to get any kind of 9-5 that pays anything after you graduate. An the people who do get out never ever want to look back.[/QUOTE]
I'm stuck in community college and that's the general attitude. It's like high school, they're only there to stay competitive in their jobs as dental assistants and CNC machinists.
[QUOTE=bopie;27434612]I'm stuck in community college and that's the general attitude. It's like high school, they're only there to stay competitive in their jobs as dental assistants and CNC machinists.[/QUOTE]
yea I dont like small minded people who have no true career ambitions
[QUOTE=Extroll;27434511]We need this in America. Now.[/QUOTE]
They do, I recently went the the health clinic and they gave me a brown lunch bag full of 50 condoms for free. I'm guessing that's one of those bible-belt states that don't allow abortion?
Happy I don't live there, my girl is pregnant but we're getting an abortion thank god.
who jizzed in the sloppy joe's?
[QUOTE=dumbfox;27434512]So are condoms or something. le pope.[/QUOTE]
My previous statement still stands. Who gives a fuck. Religion is a dying breed.
[QUOTE=bopie;27434372]Isn't it kind of presumptuous to assume they were unplanned?[/QUOTE]
"omg i want a baby!" hardly constitutes planning.
[QUOTE=geogzm;27434501]My school only had 1 pregnant student in the last year
:smith: at who she was[/QUOTE]
yea I mean alotta guys get condoms but dont have them with when they finally get some action and the chick isnt bold enough to say not until you have a condom. Which is retarded to not say anyways.
So lesson #1 have a condom in your wallet at all times kids.
I am 20 now and in college. But this should seem like grade 1 common sense to anyone who has descended balls,haha
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