Schools 'push teen mothers to be dropouts'

The Observer ^ | Sunday 14 March 2010 | Tracy McVeigh

[Niuhuru]

Teenage mothers are being thrown on the career scrap heap because they face so many barriers in getting back into school, the children's charity Barnardo's says.

Young women are often left out of school on "spurious health and safety grounds" and feel pressured by their schools not to come back after having had a baby, says the charity.

[DJ MacWoW]

Yeah. I’m sure welfare will pay for a computer and the internet.

[FrdmLvr]

Better yet...have a baby, give it up for private adoption and get on with your life and KEEP YOUR PANTS ON NEXT TIME!

[GeronL]

Those are usually supplied by the K12 program actually.

[wendy1946]

The conclusion I'm coming to is that there needs to be some sort of a conservative welfare program for middle-class and conservative people in their late teens to early twenties, and the thing has to be based on marriage and middle-class values.

We're already paying at least the cost of such a program for stuff which isn't doing us any good.

[wendy1946]

Nobody outside of China is giving up babies for adoption any more.