Have you guys seen this?
That’s the incentive behind College Bound Sisters, a program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro that aims to keep 12- to 18-year-old girls in school and baby-free.
Girls in the program attend 90-minute meetings every week at which they receive lessons in abstinence and the use of contraceptives — and they receive $7 every week they do not get pregnant. The money is deposited into a fund that’s collectible when they enroll in college.
Read the rest here.
June 28th, 2009 8:52 am
Joke on the Australian television program Rove that there are now a whole lot of boys with $2.00 coins in their pockets (as the scheme is paying the girls $1.00 per day).
In Australia the unwed mother’s payment is a lot more than $7.00 a week. Can’t see how it would work here.
June 28th, 2009 8:53 am
Sorry Polycarp – No idea what happened there!!