Tag: babies

Born Into Poverty

Lots of young mothers with babies ride the buses in Rochester.    It was different in San Francisco.   In SF, people from all walks of life would ride the bus; everyone from the crazy homeless man to the business executive in a crisp suit.    But in Rochester, you can tell that the people who ride the…
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December 9, 2010 0

Some Thoughts On Teenage Pregnancy

A residential services charity gives teenage moms and pregnant teenagers a place to live.   “We give the girls a place to live where no one will judge them,” the woman began her spiel to me and my Americorps friends. But then she went on, “Sometimes the girls come back to us two, three times, each…
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October 19, 2010 10