Posted on 07/06/2009 7:22:00 AM PDT by GOPGuide
GREENSBORO -- A buck-a-day -- that's the incentive being offered to young girls to keep them from getting pregnant, WXII-TV reported.
The group College-Bound Sisters was founded at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro by Hazel Brown, a maternity nurse who thought too many teens were having babies.
Brown said she hopes the program, which pays $1 each day to 12-to-18-year-old girls, will keep them from getting pregnant. In addition to remaining pregnancy-free, the girls must also attend weekly meetings.
The program is funded by a four-year grant from the state.
"Our three goals are that they avoid pregnancy, graduate from high school and enroll in college," Brown said.
Under the program, $7 is deposited into an interest-bearing college fund that the girls can collect once they graduate high school.
Some recent graduates earned more than $2,000 and are an inspiration to those still in the program.
"I might want to be a teacher for a few years and then be a lawyer," said 12-year-old Chelsey Davis.
"I might want to be an actor or singer," another girl in the program, Amanda Davis, added.
Program director Laurie Smith said those aspirations are more achievable because of the incentives the program provides and the friendships it helps create.
Smith said nearly 100 percent of the girls who finish the program have gone on to graduate college.
If a girl drops out or gets pregnant, her money is divided among the other girls still in the program.
If you are living on the dole, you have no business dumping more children on the taxpayer to take care of.
Of course having an abortion means pretending none of it ever happened...
Soon to follow, a sure fire double-down bet on the same program to promote equality; but how much will it cost to pay young men NOT to impregnate young women?
I’ll not get preggo at half the price...
“but how much will it cost to pay young men NOT to impregnate young women?”
Boys can’t get pregnant...
So,,,, They take the money until they get knocked up. When they do get pregnant, do they have to give the money back? No? Win/win situation...
Cool - gender discrimination. Do boys get money for not getting girls pregnant as well?
Takes two to Tango.
Problem is they can make more if the get pregnant.
So it’s like crop subsidies for .... bimbos?
Ok, so stop giving them benefits if they get pregnant while also paying them not to get pregnant.
30.00 a month no children - 500 with a child...
Yeah, but if they get pregnant they get welfare money, a lot of sympathy, free college admission and all kinds of other benefits.
Liberal ideas reflect the confused, aberrant state of the liberal mind.
That won’t happen, it’s for the chillun’ ya know!
Ask not what they won’t do for $1 a day, but what they will do for 75 cents. ;-)
O muh gawd!
I just watched the video!
I ain’t a “hater”, but I think the question needs to asked; are caucasian girls eligible for this program, too? Or is the profile that is presented just the “luck of the draw”.
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