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Teen Pregnancy: So What?
Teen pregnancies by Area Development District - 2008
Teen Pregnancy: So What?

There is a financial cost to teen pregnancy to the taxpayer. Teen moms who need government assistance because they cannot work, children who have special needs because their mom didn't get prenatal care early on, court systems and paternity enforcement agencies going after dads, schools that won't get the average daily attendance money for moms that drop out, the costs go on.

Editor's Note: this article was published January 17, 2009.

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Altitude and Attitude: Teen moms and a changing culture
The saying goes that altitude depends on attitude, or how high one goes in life depends on one’s outlook. For teen moms, their altitude includes diapers, midnight feedings, baby formula in addition to midterms, ballgames and what to wear to prom. For too many of these moms, the whole mixing school and baby becomes a series of choices for an overwhelmed and exhausted girl. Choices must be made.
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Ballard Records Lowest Teen Pregnancy Rate in 06

Ballard County had the lowest teen pregnancy rate in the region with the lowest teen pregnancy rate in the state. What's are the numbers in other regions and what is Kentucky doing to address unplanned teen pregnancies. The story after the jump.
 
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Is abstinence only effective?
New Hampshire is taking a broad approach to teen pregnancy prevention.  With the lowest rate of teen pregnancy in the nation, NH officials focus broad spectrum approach which includes but doesn't totally rely on abstinence only.
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Where does the future of the GOP lie?
So. We're minding our own business, me and the spouse, just watching our usual morning news shows on Tuesday. Slurping coffee and trying not to drool on the covers while we wake up. Then something gets said on the television that brings us straight up in the bed, grabbin' for a pen and paper. 

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