"... the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services changed the program’s requirements to allow only 19- to 21-year-olds who needed housing assistance to get help. Because most pregnant teens in the Valley are younger and live with family after they get pregnant, funding for the program was cut, leaving many pregnant teens with only their schools to help."
Gotta love those young journalists schooled in the best of PC-speak. When I read the headline I initially thought the article was about teen pregnancy, but it is really about the cold, cruel Republicans in the statehouse that cut funding for programs that divide pregnant teens from their parents. Silly me.
Oh, and of course the issue that of course can't be spoken out loud is that the problem is cultural. The girls getting pregnant in the Rio Grande Valley are mostly Mexican-American. This is a problem that is an echo of our nation's immigration problem. I wonder what the teen pregnancy rate is on the other side of the border?
Lastly, note the second quote above. Because the pregnant teens only live with their parents, then they can only go to their school for help. Hellooo? I thought that's what parents were for. But this idiot young journalist can't see beyond the polemics of her bias.
The same --- if you ever go to Mexico, you'll see 12 year old girls begging on the streets with their little babies in their arms. This is why American welfare is so attractive to these people ---- it's great getting the government to hand you a paycheck for doing nothing at all.