Posted on 10/16/2009 7:15:57 AM PDT by MindBender26
(Video of pregnant girls)
All those young ladies are moms or moms-to-be at Paul Robeson High School. It's not a school for young mothers, it's a neighborhood school. And all of the pregnancies have happened, despite prevention talk.
If you want to know why, the people closest to the situation say there's no simple explanation.
Chicago Public Schools says it does not track the overall number of teen moms in the district. But Robeson Principal Gerald Morrow knows the count at his school in Englewood: 115 young ladies who are expecting.
To put it in perspective, their school pictures would fill roughly six pages of their high school year book.
Why is it happening at Robeson?
"It can be a lot of things that are happening in the home or not happening in the home, if you will," Morrow said. Absentee fathers are another factor, he said.
LaDonna Denson and two other Robeson students say parents not talking to teens and, in some cases, the pursuit of public assistance also factor into the pregnancies. None of them thought they'd be moms at such a young age.
They said they have support at home. But not all girls do, they said. In fact, some girls get thrown out of the home.
Not on Morrow's turf. "We're not looking at them like 'Ooh you made a mistake,'" he said. "We're looking at how we can get them to the next phase, how can we still get them thinking about graduation?"
So there's help in a teen parent program. And coming soon, right across from Robeson, developers are turning a one-time crack house into a day care for student use. "We have to provide some type of environment for them and some form of support for them," Van Vincent, CEO of VLV Development, said.
It's all made an impression.
"Just cause you have a baby, that doesn't mean your life is over," one student said.
One thing they might not know about their principal: His mom had him when she was 15. That's why accepting the problem -- and working through it -- is so important to him
Why does this happen?
Here are three hints:
#1: They are having unprotected sex! (like, Duh!) #2: No morals #3: The school, in Chicago, is named after an African American Communist, Barack Obama, oops, I mean Paul Robeson!
“There is no simple explanation.” This is where the fuzz starts. It is SO SIMPLE. Perhaps it should read, “There is no common sense.”
Hey, someone has got to pay for my social security in 25 years....
That is, if they are working....
“The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.”
“I am going to teach my daughters first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
—BARACK OBAMA
Robeson was a commie.
It doesn't only apply to married couples.
"It wasn't green or yellow, so I
didn't think it needed a condom.
No fathers...
for about FOUR GENERATIONS.
Perhaps the COMMUNITY is is into COMMUNITY SEX?
When a mommy bird loves a daddy bee...
Ya think?
ACORN has started a new program: Register In The Womb. Twice!
It’s all about destroying the family.
Start with neutralizing men as fathers.
End with a destroyed society.
Look no further... We have found the cause of the violence in Chicago. Feral children, raised on the streets and in community centers.
Gee, did they even mention anything about these babies daddies? How many of them are teachers? How many of them are the same daddies?
Its not like kids today have any kind of moral foundation except "not to be judgmental".
The girls life has just become really messed up - Man - I cant even believe in todays society they don’t know better. Statistically they are finished.
When you’re young, you’re stupid. - Wendy Hiller
Condoms fail 1 in 20 times under perfect conditions.
So “protection” is a matter of degrees
BTW, I;m in the same boat as you - we get the bills for irresponsibility. I'm not picking on you personally.
“1 Of 8 Girls Pregnant At Paul Robeson High In Chicago (in a Chicago “Neighboorhood School!”
Oh those horny swiss immigrants.
You got it, girl. This is just the beginning. Pop out a few more and watch the big welfare checks start rollin' in.
Wow, and here I was thinking it was attributable to "sex". The "People Closest to the Situation" should have paid more attention in Health Class.
Remember, too, that these are the same people who want to teach sex-ed. Maybe they ought to let the students run the class.
Translation: "Everyone knows what's wrong, but it's politically incorrect to admit it."
What!?! They should put that on the box!
(Sorry, unforgettable Friends moment.)
Those dang Amish again.
Paracites, welfare queens..
What can we do?
Best solution would be to cut off all social services. No food, fuel, or housing assistance. If you work, or are married to a worker, you can survive. Otherwise, your chances are not good. We would have mothers and children starving to death in alleys, no doubt about it.
No one wants that. But what other solution is there? An increase in the minimum wage?? All the things we've been trying -- all the "help" that we provide -- only serves to expand the problem and make it worse.
The problem will only go away if the people involved really come to grips with the cost of the behavior.
What disgusts me is that these people won’t admit that this is EXACTLY what they WANTED TO HAPPEN.
Because they were all raised by people who were able to avoid the consequences of their actions. Therefore, they have no problem with allowing others to provide for them.
MO’ MONEY....MO’ MONEY.....MO’ MONEY!!!!
...something comes to mind here - this is pretty close to what Hitler did to increase the “pure” German population - I think the liberals are attempting to bring in a whole new class of sub-servant citizens dependent on them - of course this has been going on for decades - but this is pathetic!
The jokes write themselves.
Parents of both teen parents are responsible for their medical bills, their teenagers' living expenses, and ALL child care expenses for the baby.
Or, State takes the baby and the teen mom gets her tubes tied... teen dad gets immediate vasectomy.
None of the family members including the teen parents will ever be able to see the child.
Watcha doing? Spreading Truth, AND Facts? You gonna be taken off the W H Ramadan card list !............LOL...
The deal is, that it is hard to definitively pin the blame for the current negative consequences on the liberal policies, especially if you’re willfully blinded by ideology.
However, a few kids/families starving in the streets (and saving the REST of the population from the same fate as a result), can be directly attributed to “lack of services”.
You got it. Government is ‘Daddy’.
it’s a cultural thing. welcome to their world
Definitely - the left is trying to set itself up as the “ruling class” with full control over the rest of the population through controlling their consumption, travel, etc.
Most of them think that this is necessary and proper, because they “know better” than the individual about the decisions each person can and should make.
Wow, I just heard Beyonce give a radio ad for hunger relief, stating 1 in 8 people in America experience hunger at some point in their life. Perhaps she should do another public service announcement for Chicago.
Not on Morrow’s turf. “We’re not looking at them like ‘Ooh you made a mistake,’” he said. “
I think we found the first part of the problem.
Just thinking...if 1/8 are keepers, I am guessing there is also 1/8 that aborted. So the real rate of inflation is 1 in 4.
FEAR of DAD
FEAR of tarnishing the family name
FEAR of fire & brimstone
Many moons ago it worked!
I wonder how many of those girls are below the age of consent?
Welfare and support is the reason they do it. Put them in a special girls school, put the kid up for adoption because the mother is unable to support them. Segregrate—not integrate them.
“Heck, you’ll be supporting all their kids out of wedlock. Sacrifice, sacrifice!”
This is one of the reasons for the big push for Obamacare being passed. Then, the gov’mint can raid some of that Medicare money that covers mostly those old white people. They can push it into the ghettos, such as Chicago, so the string of unaccountable exsitance can continue the string of one generationt to the next. A never-ending burden on society.
As a society we are so totally screwed.
I’m glad I got to live through most of the century of America’s greatness.
Yes it does sweetheart, it is no longer YOUR life, you have other lives to account for.
Each kid is worth $400.00 a month plus food stamps, WIC coupons, Section-8 free housing, After about the 3rd kid they are making enough money there is no need to worry about anything except when the mailman brings the check. Just hope he doesn’t interupt them when they are watching Springer. When the kids get old enough to go out on there own say 9 or 10 they just cut them loose in the projects to fend for themselves. Just as long as those checks keep coming.
Years ago, a Black 16 yr old was pregnant by her mom’s boyfriend. They needed to replace a welfare amt. because the oldest was out of the house and they would lose some money. So, this girl’s pregnancy added the money back—as she was to live there. She was crying to me that she wanted to be a hairdresser and go to school for this. I felt badly for her, but told her to go to school anyway.
Look to the future, and get out of that house(especially with the mom’s boyfriend there).
No one wants that. But what other solution is there?
The facts of life are that these girls can make more money on welfare (when you add up the value of all the benefits, including medicaid, section 8 housing, etc) than they can on a minimum-wage job. Plus they can work "off the books" on the side.
Reduce benefits to the point where surviving on welfare as a single mom is sufficiently hard, and you will have much fewer single moms.
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