Posted on 06/05/2007 10:54:44 AM PDT by Celerity
PONTIAC, Michigan (AP) -- Shantaya McDaniel and Victor Reyes, teenagers who are refreshingly sensible for their age, now know what contributes to the high death rate of infants in their city and steps they can take to help keep babies alive.
Credit a six-week class called Crib Notes offered at their Lincoln Middle School for helping them apply lessons on healthy and proper eating, sleeping and living.
It was more than an academic exercise. Shantaya, 14, is helping her cousin and stepsister with their babies. Victor, 15, is using his newfound knowledge to help raise his 3-month-old son, Giovonni.
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If they would teach - wait until you are at least twenty and married and if you mess up on that don’t leave the baby with your new boyfriend.
And to the young men - you can’t protect your baby if you aren’t there. If you aren’t with your baby’s mother and faithful to her, she’s going to be moving on to the next man who has very little interest in the well-being of your child.
Mrs VS
For a second there I thought this might be a story about abortion - you'd think I'd know better by now.
Eighth grade daddy? Oh, my, what are we coming to?
The best birth control in the world is having a teen take care of infants/toddlers
for an extended period of time. I was lucky that one of my cousins had her first child when my daughter turned 12 and her second child right after my daughter
turned 14. She had 4 summers from 12-16 of looking after one or two kids under two years old. She swears she’s not having kids ‘til she’s 30.
The best birth control in the world is having a teen take care of infants/toddlers for an extended period of time. I was lucky that one of my cousins had her first child when my daughter turned 12 and her second child right after my daughter turned 14. She had 4 summers from 12-16 of looking after one or two kids under two years old. She swears she’s not having kids ‘til she’s 30.
Apologies for the double post!!!
Didn’t work with my SIL. She babysat from ages 14-17. Got knocked up at 20.
Girls rarely have sex intending to have a child.
You’re right, the reason most teenages have sex is to have kids! Once they know how much responsibility it requires, they won’t even think about sex!
What do you expect from the 2nd or 3rd generation of girls to grow up with no father in the household? Gonna do what most girls do in that situation......
ANYTHING for a guys attention.
Compound that with a “culture” of reinforced hedonism and seld deprication in the music and media, and would you really expect anything else?
Why is a 15 year old still in middle school anyway?
We had the “don’t have sex until you are married and ready for a kid” talk with my daughter early and often and are having the same discussions with our son now. This class is not a substitute for those talks, but I DO think youngsters that have responsibility for a small child see how much work it is.
I read a lot of interviews in teen magazines when I was younger and when my daughter was younger where girls said they WANTED to get pregnant and have a baby. I remember one article where three of the girls were 12-13 years old. They had no clue how much work a child is. Most kids don’t because they have not had to babysit younger siblings or relative’s kids. When they find out, they REALLY don’t want to have kids until they are older.
15 is a standard age for a ninth grader
...which is high school.
Which means he flunked one grade. It happens. Since he has children already (meaning he impregnated someone when he was 14), he’s obviously not a Rhodes scholar candidate in the making.
Obviously not lol.
Oh, I don’t know about that, Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar in the making at age 14...and look at him!
Reagan80
15 is a standard age for a ninth grader
...which is high school.
you’re right, I was thinking of Junior High (which apparently has been abolished). Still, a 15 year old in 8th grade would not be uncommon.
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