Mississippi Has Most Teen Pregnancies

Only a few knew about 6-month experiment

(NEWSER) - Month after month, as her baby bump grew, fellow high schoolers talked behind Gaby Rodriguez’s back—until they found out she’d never been pregnant at all. Instead, the 17-year-old faked a pregnancy, complete with a wire-and-cotton belly, as a social experiment at her school in Washington, the Yakima Herald-Republic reports. Only her mother, principal, boyfriend, and a few others knew the truth, while her teachers and even her boyfriend's parents were left in the dark for most of Rodriguez’s senior year. More»

Britney's kid sis moves back in with mom

(NEWSER) - Jamie Lynn Spears has dumped her baby daddy and is dating a 28-year-old Louisiana businessman. Britney's baby sister, who had a baby of her own at 16, has left the Mississippi home she shared with Casey Aldridge last month, reports People . Spears, 18, had planned to marry her construction worker after the birth of their daughter, Maddie, now nearly 2. Jamie is currently living with her mom. More»

It beat safe sex program in recent study

(NEWSER) - Abstinence-only sex education is back on solid scientific ground, with a study showing the method may be more effective than safe sex education in discouraging young teens from taking the plunge. Different groups of 6th- and 7th-graders were given short courses in abstinence, safe sex, or a combination of the two. Two years later, 33% of the abstinence students had become sexually active, compared to 52% of the safe-sex pupils. More»

(NEWSER) - A British National Health Service trust posted a controversial staged video on YouTube showing a teenager giving birth amid a pack of yelling high schoolers as a way to scare girls about pregnancy, reports the Daily Mail. The video shows a teen, played by an actress, giving birth on a sports field with the help of a friend whose face is smeared with blood. More»

Health professionals text teens answers to anonymous sex questions

(NEWSER) - Teenagers no longer need to reveal their angst over pregnancy or noisy sex in crowded classrooms, the New York Times reports. Public health officials, fretting over the state of sex ed in US schools, are now answering questions via text message. Some use multiple choice menus and automated responses, but one North Carolina program lets kids text in anonymously and receive personalized, non-judgmental answers within 24 hours. More»