New take on pregnancy prevention
NBC Chicago - The Chicago Department of Public Health is taking a unique approach in its efforts to help reduce teenage pregnancy.
NYC anti-teen pregnancy campaign shames when it should help
OPINION - There are certainly more compassionate ways to warn teen girls about the risk of becoming single mothers than the insulting, frightening messages being promoted by Mayor Bloomberg...
Teen parents face stigma when they return to school
theGRIO REPORT - Not many teen parents will be sitting in the classroom this fall. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy cites parenthood as a leading cause of school dropout among teen girls...
School facing lawsuit for forcing students to take pregnancy tests
theGRIO REPORT - A Louisiana charter schools policy on pregnant students has caught the attention of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the organization is now threatening to sue...
Mom who tossed baby down garbage shoot gets probation
Laquasia Wright, a 19-year-old Brooklyn girl, was allowed to plead guilty in endangering the welfare of a child after she threw her baby down her 8th floor garbage chute...
Determined not to drop out: Why diplomas matter
theGRIO VIDEO - Rasheedah Phillips was on the path to becoming part of a grim statistic. More than 7,000 students drop out of school every day in America...
A school for pregnant teens closes in Detroit
VIDEO - Catherine Ferguson Academy is unlike any other school in the country. It has been educating teen mothers since 1988...
Why Memphis school's teen pregnancy crisis is a wake-up call
OPINION - What we have is a failure to communicate. What we need are more drastic, in-your-face approaches...
'No baby': 90 teen moms in one school has Memphis making amends
theGRIO REPORT - Mayor AC Wharton, Jr. says the 90 students pregnant at Frayser High School is "everybody's issue."...
90 Memphis high schoolers pregnant or had a baby
VIDEO - A Title One school, Frayser receives federal dollars based on the number of students from low income families who qualify for free or reduced lunch...
