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teen pregnancy stories: 73 news summaries

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 We're 'Friends for Now': Levi 

Teen dad won't rule out reunion

Mar 16, 09 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Is there still hope for a Bristol Palin-Levi Johnston reunion? Maybe, Johnston tells ABC in an interview airing today on Good Morning America. "We’ll just remain friends for now. We’re both cool with that decision, and we’ll see," says the teen, who cites "me... More »

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baby • breakup • teen pregnancy • Bristol Palin • Levi Johnston

 Bristol: Mom 
 Clueless About 
 Teenage Sex 

Abstinence is 'not realistic at all'

Feb 17, 09 6:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Sarah Palin doesn't have a clue about teenage sexuality, her 18-year-old daughter, Bristol, indicated in a Fox News interview last night. The former VP candidate backs teen sexual abstinence, but that's just "not realistic at all," the teen mom told Greta Van Susteren. And while teenage sex may... More »

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baby • teen pregnancy • teen sex • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin

Baby-Faced Teen May Not
Be the Dad

Will take DNA test to disprove two other teens' claims

Feb 16, 09 8:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Four-foot-tall teen dad Alfie Patten will take a DNA test to prove he really is the father of girlfriend Chantelle Steadman’s daughter Maisie, the Mail reports. Photos of the baby-faced 13-year-old caused an uproar last week, and two other teens came forward to claim they also slept with Chantelle.... More »

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pregnancy • DNA • children • baby • Britain • paternity test • teen pregnancy

OPINION

Kid UK Parents Might Be Just Fine, Thanks

They need guidance, sure, but who cares if they go on the dole?

Feb 15, 09 3:08 PM CST
(Newser) - Don’t be so sure 13-year-old Alfie Patten and 15-year-old Chantelle Steadman will be bad parents for their newborn, Sarah Sands writes in the Independent. Sure, the young father “loves computer games and Manchester United,” but that “does not actually set Alfie apart from the adult male... More »

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social services • baby • Britain • teen pregnancy • child

 Baby-Faced Dad Is Just 13 

Teen parent stands barely four feet tall

Feb 13, 09 11:27 AM CST
(Newser) - Thirteen-year-old Alfie Patten, who, with his baby face, could pass for eight, became a father on Monday, the Sun reports. The 4-foot-tall Brit—who did not know how much diapers cost but said, "I think it’s a lot"—was not sure how he and girlfriend Chantelle Steadman,... More »

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pregnancy • children • baby • Britain • teen pregnancy

 Teen Sex: 
 Everybody Else 
 Isn't Doing It 

Teen sex is on a downswing

Jan 27, 09 1:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Kids these days, with their sex, their sex, and all their sex. Just look at Jamie Lynn Spears and Bristol Palin—it’s getting worse all the time, right? Nope. The portion of high-schoolers who’d had sex in 2007 was 47.8%, reports the New York Times—down from... More »

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study • sex • oral sex • statistics • Jamie Lynn Spears • teen pregnancy • teen sex • teenager • Bristol Palin

Mississippi Has Most Teen Pregnancies

State passes Texas
and New Mexico in nationwide uptick

Jan 7, 09 11:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Mississippi has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the US, the AP reports. Some 68 Mississippi women out of 1,000 aged 15-19 got pregnant in 2006—the most recent year for which data are available, and in which the US rate rose for the first time in 15... More »

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pregnancy • Texas • New Mexico • abstinence education • Mississippi • teen pregnancy • celebrity pregnancy • teenager • pregnant women • wowOwow

Palin: My Future Son-In-Law's No Dropout

New parents 'working their butts off' to finish school, new grandma tells media

Jan 1, 09 9:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Sarah Palin is blasting media reports that her daughter and future son-in-law are high school dropouts, reports the Anchorage Daily News. The Alaska governor told several news outlets that eldest daughter Bristol, who just gave birth to Palin's first grandchild, starts her last semester in high school next week, and... More »

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Alaska • teen pregnancy • Sarah Palin • high school dropouts • Bristol Palin • Levi Johnston

 Bristol Baby Pics Score $300K 

Price went up when grandma got arrested

Dec 30, 08 7:17 AM CST
(Newser) - Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston are unwed teen parents—and about to make enough money to buy her mom’s campaign wardrobe twice over by selling the first pics of new son Tripp, MSNBC reports. Bidding among the celeb weeklies began at $100,000, with People winning out. The couple's... More »

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Alaska • baby • birth • teen pregnancy • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin • Levi Johnston

 Mom Gives Birth to Baby No. 18 

'I like to snuggle,' says Arkansas woman

Dec 19, 08 4:14 AM CST
(Newser) - And you thought Angelina Jolie had a lot of kids. An Arkansas mom has just given birth to her 18th. The baby, Jordyn-Grace Makiya, joins a crowd of sibs with names that start with the letter J and star in the TLC series 17 Kids & Counting. The spree began... More »

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pregnancy • families • parenting • mothers • baby • teen pregnancy • large families • TLC

 Teen Pregnancy 
 Tied to Steamy TV 

Kids who watched most sex content twice as likely to face issue

Nov 3, 08 9:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Teenagers who watch more sexual content on TV are far more likely to face pregnancy, a new study suggests. Of 700 teens interviewed over 3 years, those who watched the most sexual material—on shows such as Friends and Sex and the City—were about twice as likely to get... More »

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 No Rush to Altar for Jamie Lynn 

Tells OK! she'll wait until baby is older

Oct 9, 08 8:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Teen mom Jamie Lynn Spears has nixed plans to wed her babydaddy in the short term, reports the New York Daily News. "We both agree that we want Maddie to be a little bit older so that she can be a part of it," Britney Spears’ kid sis... More »

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marriage • Jamie Lynn Spears • teen pregnancy • Casey Aldridge • celebrity engagements • OK! magazine

 'Pregnancy Pact'
 HS to Offer
 Birth Control 

School where 17 teens got pregnant last year OKs birth control plan

Oct 9, 08 4:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Massachusetts high school where 17 teens got pregnant last year presumably as part of a "pregnancy pact" has decided to distribute birth control pills and condoms to students, the Boston Globe reports. A school official said birth control would only be available with parental consent, adding that he... More »

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Mama Spears Complains Palin 'Celebrated' for Preggo Teen

Her daughter, on other hand, was 'crucified'

Sep 19, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lynne Spears has gone on the offensive, telling Newsweek that a "hypocritical" press and public "crucified" her family when Jamie Lynn got pregnant at 16, but "celebrated" Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin for her daughter Bristol's teen pregnancy. "It's a totally different reaction." More »

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Lynne Spears • Jamie Lynn Spears • teen pregnancy • Sarah Palin • celebrity tell-alls • celebrity parents • Bristol Palin

ANALYSIS

Teen Tramp Trend Is
Media Myth

Girls lust after
saucy look, but
not so hot for sex

Sep 14, 08 4:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - High-profile pregnant teens like Bristol Palin and Jamie-Lynn Spears paint a picture of teenage girls run amok with lust, writes Belinda Luscombe in Time. But while “girls seem to have moved from Easy-Bake to easy virtue” in the last generation, Luscombe argues that the teens are often more interested... More »

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Miley Cyrus • Jamie Lynn Spears • teen pregnancy • teen sex • teenager • Bristol Palin

Enquirer: Palin's Son Addicted to Painkillers

Tab claims would-be VP kicked pregnant Bristol out of house

Sep 10, 08 11:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin’s Iraq-bound 19-year-old son, Track, was addicted to the painkiller OxyContin and binged on cocaine before joining the army last year, the National Enquirer reports. The supermarket tab also claims the Alaska governor kicked 17-year-old daughter Bristol—also supposedly a party animal—out of the house and made... More »

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Alaska • drug addiction • OxyContin • teen pregnancy • teen health • teen drinking • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin • Track Palin

Palin Babydaddy Sports 'Bristol' Engagement Tattoo

17-year-old pregnant daughter of Republican VP pick has actual ring

Sep 4, 08 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Levi Johnston, boyfriend and father-to-be of Sarah Palin's teenage daughter Bristol is apparently serious about doing the right thing with the potential first kid: He's sporting a 'Bristol' tattoo in the place of an engagement ring, TMZ comments. “In lieu of a tramp stamp,” the celeb site adds... More »

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John McCain • tattoos • engagement • teen pregnancy • Sarah Palin • Republican National Convention • Bristol Palin • Levi Johnston

Unwed Teen Moms Unite!

Jamie Lynn Spears sends bibs, tells fellow 17-year-old Bristol Palin to 'hang in there'

Sep 4, 08 12:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jamie Lynn Spears, bumped from her perch as America’s most famous unwed teen mom, sent Sarah Palin’s daughter a note of support and a baby present, ABC reports. Spears sent the 5-months-pregnant Bristol, also 17, $60 burp cloths from a luxe Los Angeles baby shop, with a note... More »

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Jamie Lynn Spears • teen pregnancy • celebrity pregnancy • celebrity baby • Bristol Palin

Bristol's Babydaddy Heads to GOP Convention

Future son-in-law in wings for big speech

Sep 3, 08 4:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bristol Palin's babydaddy is on his way to join the family at the Republican National Convention, AP reports. Hockey-loving Levi Johnston, 18, left Alaska for Minnesota yesterday, according to his mom, who said the young couple planned to marry even before they knew 17-year-old Bristol was pregnant. Sarah Palin, whose... More »

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teen pregnancy • Sarah Palin • Republican National Convention • Wasilla • Bristol Palin • Levi Johnston

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan has some advice for Sarah Palin: Stick to the issues. On her MySpace blog, the actress writes that she’s “concerned” John McCain’s GOP running mate “brought the attention to her daughter’s pregnancy, rather than all world issues and what she believes she could... More »

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pregnancy • MySpace • Lindsay Lohan • teen pregnancy • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin

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