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Date: 2015-10-07; view: 388.

How can the number of teen pregnancies be reduced?

What help is available for teen parents and their kids?

What about the children's dads?

In most cases the father does not help financially or emotionally. If he is young too he can't help very much because he has the same problems as the mother. In the past, the couple would get married but evidence showed because the couple were so young, it didn't work.

Teen mothers are given some welfare money to help them survive. Around the USA and parts of Britain, there are some schools that have a special childcare centre for the teen mothers. The centre looks after the babies while their mothers are in class. They also teach the mother how to make sure the baby stays healthy. Although these centers are helpful, they have been criticized for how much they cost the state.

Some say teens should be taught to abstain from sex until they are married, others say we should give them more information. Some schools use Think-It-Over Dolls'. These are dolls that cry during the night and must be picked up. They also need to be 'fed'. The dolls record it if you hit them or drop them. Teens are given the dolls to look after for a weekend.

Digest, 2003, № 12.