On the website, opposingviews.com, we found this interesting article about a program in North Carolina that awards money to young women when they enroll in college. The only stipulation is that cannot get pregnant.
Called “College Bound Sisters,” it began in 1997 as the health department in Guilford County worked to combat a high rate of teen pregnancy. They initially targeted girls aged 12-16 whose sisters were teenaged mothers.
“When I was doing maternity nursing,” Dr. Hazel Brown of the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina–Greensboro and the program’s co-founder said, “the girls would always say, ‘It hasn’t been such a big deal in my family, because my sister already had a baby.’”
They eventually came up with the idea to give money to the girls for college — a dollar a day for every day they were in the program. In addition to money, the girls learn about fellowship, goal-setting, age-appropriate sexual education and getting into college.
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