plus 3, Teenage pregnancy 'can be positive' - The Guardian

Teenage pregnancy 'can be positive' - The Guardian
Josh Duhamel's Stripper Lashes Out At Pregnancy Rumors - Limelife
SCV Pregnancy Center - Santa Clarita Radio
Pregnancy risk rises for teens in the closet - The Vancouver Sun

Teenage pregnancy 'can be positive' - The Guardian

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 01:17 PM PST

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Teenage pregnancy can "make sense" for young people and have a positive effect on their lives, according to the authors of a new study.

The book, Teenage Parenthood: What's The Problem?, argues teenage pregnancy is not necessarily the result of ignorance about contraception or low expectations.

Its authors say the majority of teenage mothers they interviewed were more motivated to succeed at school or work because they wanted to provide for their families.

Dr Claire Alexander of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) said teenage mothers were often stereotyped as "dysfunctional and immoral".

She said: "In contrast to the ignorance, fecklessness and hazardous consequences reiterated in policy and media, our research makes it clear that young parenthood can make sense and be valued and can even provide an impetus for teenage mothers and fathers to strive to provide a better life for their children."

The study shows a fall in the number of teenage pregnancies since the 1960s and early 1970s.

A Department for Children, Schools and Families spokeswoman said there had been a 23% reduction in the number of under-18s giving birth since 1998.

She said: "While many teenage parents manage very well, they and their children are more likely to suffer health, emotional and economic problems.

"As the vast majority of teenage pregnancies are unplanned, our strategy focuses on giving young people the knowledge, skills and confidence to make positive and informed choices about sexual activity and parenthood."

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Josh Duhamel's Stripper Lashes Out At Pregnancy Rumors - Limelife

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 09:28 AM PST

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Nicole Forrester says her kids are getting teased.

We couldn't believe what we read early last week about the stripper who tested positively in a lie detector test after sex with Josh Duhamel. Nicole Forrester had reportedly stepped forward to claim that she was having Josh...but as it turns out, sounds like Forrester couldn't believe her ears, either.

"Apparently, because of mistakes I made in the past they feel I'm fair game and can print whatever lies they want just to sell magazines - I want this to stop now," our pals at TMZ have quoted Forrester saying. Then she made it very clear: "I am not pregnant."

And Forrester is worried not just what about the rumors are doing to her, Josh and Josh's wife Fergie, but she's pleading the press to stop spreading the buzz because it's affecting her kids at school: "This has not only hurt me but other innocent parties, including my children, who have to deal with the bully tactics of other children - that is not fair."

We never thought we'd say this, but in this case, we agree with the stripper. On second thought, Ms. Forrester, if you're concerned about your kids getting teased at school, maybe you shouldn't be...a stripper? This was hardly the most scandalous mistress story of the week -- Tiger Wood's mistress Rachel Uchitel has landed a TV gig. Unbelievable, right?

By the way, here's our first report on Josh Duhamel and the allegedly pregnant stripper.

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SCV Pregnancy Center - Santa Clarita Radio

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 05:54 AM PST

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The SCV Pregnancy Center offers education, pregnancy tests and counseling for women who become pregnant, and programs are in existence for parents and fathers to be.

In the 21 year history the Center has provided services to over 9,000 people.

While most of the Center's services are geared towards new families, they do offer grief counseling for women who decide to terminate their pregnancy.

"Women who have a miscarriage can openly grieve the loss of their pregnancy. Women who terminate their pregnancy have a difficult time recognizing that they have suffered a loss," said Angela Benner, who heads up the SCV Pregnancy Center.

Bennett went on to say that often woman do feel grief and sometimes they try to suppress it by using drugs or alcohol.

For more information about the SCV Pregnancy Center, check out http://www.scvpc.org.

661 - 255 - 0082

24 Hour Hotline: 800-395-HELP

23838 Valencia Blvd

Suite 270

Santa Clarita, CA 91355

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Pregnancy risk rises for teens in the closet - The Vancouver Sun

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 03:16 AM PST

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Lesbian, gay and bisexual teenagers are at significantly higher risk for pregnancy during their teen years than their heterosexual peers, suggests a survey published Tuesday in the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality.

The University of British Columbia study looked at adolescent health surveys of 1992, 1998, and 2003, which were random studies of about 70,000 students in Grades 7 through 12 in public schools across the province of B.C.

One of the reasons for higher pregnancy among sexual minority youth, say the report's authors, is the stigma gay teens continue to face and the strategies they may engage in order to cope with that stigma.

For example, in 1998 among the teenage girls surveyed, 7.3 per cent of lesbians and 10.6 per cent of girls who said they were bisexual reported pregnancy compared with 1.8 per cent of heterosexual girls.

Among boys, the numbers were also higher that same year for gay teenagers, with 9.6 of gay males and 11.6 per cent of bisexual teen boys reporting involvement with a pregnancy, compared with 1.5 per cent of heterosexual young men.

Pregnancy rates declined slightly overall in 2003, but remained much higher among gay and lesbian teens than heterosexual teens.

The report suggests that for youth, the stigma of being gay may lead to engaging in heterosexual dating and sex as a form of "camouflage" to avoid being identified as homosexual.

"Those who experience harassment and discrimination may choose pregnancy involvement as a way to deny their orientation, to prevent further enacted stigma," the report suggests.

The numbers vary between girls and boys when it comes to the relationship between pregnancy and discrimination.

Of the girls surveyed, 100 per cent of those who had become pregnant also said they had been discriminated against on the basis of their sexuality, while only 42.7 per cent of lesbian girls who said they had never been pregnant cited discrimination.

Only 18.4 per cent of gay teenage boys who were involved in getting a woman pregnant said they had experienced discrimination, while 60.4 per cent of those who were not involved in pregnancy said they had not been discriminated against.

Other explanations for the higher rates of pregnancy may be the higher number of gay and lesbian youth who live on the streets. The study finds that street youth - those who have run away from home, for example - are at higher risk for teen pregnancy, in part because survival sex or sexual exploitation can increase the frequency of sex and make it difficult to negotiate contraception and safer sexual practices.

The study also suggests a higher number of gay and lesbian teens are experiencing sex at a younger age - under 14 - than their heterosexual peers.

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