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65 Girls At Area School Pregnant
School To Unveil Three-Prong Program
UPDATED: 10:19 am EDT August 26, 2005
CANTON, Ohio -- There are 490 female students at Timken High School, and 65 are pregnant, NewsChannel5 reported.
Some would say that movies, TV, videogames, lazy parents and lax discipline may all be to blame.
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School officials are not sure what has contributed to so many pregnancies, but in response to them, the school is launching a three-prong educational program to address pregnancy, prevention and parenting.
WEWS also reported that students will face mounting tensions created by unplanned child-rearing responsibilities, causing students to quit school and plan for a GED. This will make it difficult for the Canton City School District to shake its academic watch designation by the state.
According to the Canton Health Department, statistics through July show that 104 of the 586 babies born to Canton residents in Aultman Hospital and Mercy Medical Center had mothers between 11 and 19.
WEWS discovered that the non-Canton rate was 7 percent. Canton was 15 percent.
Cleveland's rate is 20 percent.
