Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, January 6, 1994 TAG: 9401060353
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\ COMING SUNDAY
A look at the medical, social and economic costs - and consequences - of Roanoke's high teen-pregnancy rate.
"It ain't pretty," says Dr. Robert Allen, Community Hospital neonatologist. "The anguish and suffering these teens go through - right up to the point of leaving the hospital and not having a car seat to put the baby in, or nowhere to go."
The success story of Tonie King, an unwed mother who worked her way out of the welfare trap - with the help of a small, little-known program designed to help teen mothers become confident and self-sufficient.
"I've come to find the biggest enemy to the black man and the black woman is each other," King says. "A lot of men feel if they stick you with a baby, they can control you."\ \ COMING JAN. 23
The results of our reader write-in: Roanokers share their ideas for ways to curb the city's teen-pregnancy rate.
by CNB