City health officials say they hope to reduce the teen birth rate in African American and Hispanic girls by 30 percent.
The grant, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will be doled out in $1.7 million dollar annual payments over five years.
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Why not all races of girls?
I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that their data collection targets certain racial groups that have a higher rate of teenage pregnancy... But that's just an educated guess.
10:20 ... you are correct; but that would be racial ...
Because #White lives don't matter? Yeah, I get it.
We keep on doing this every year with great fanfare and lots of dollars, yet the numbers don't seem to change for the better. Maybe the way we do it doesn't work?
Sex Education? Seems to me they already know too much about sex at far too early of an age. Now they want to teach them more, and sooner?
The more you teach them, the more legitimacy you give them for doing it. The high birth rates in these groups is just a reflection of the high birth rates of the former teenage mothers that produced them. Its a cultural thing, not an educational thing.
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