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The Baby Borrowers fights teen pregnancy {ParentDish}
Jul 9th 2008 11:37AM
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According to
Sexual Risk, and protective factors, a publication on the National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy website, these are important protective factors, but the National Campaign acknowledges that these factors are ones that community organizations can do little about. These are the factors that come up first in a statistical analysis of teenage pregnancy.
Attachment to and involvement with family--bio-parents married, family connectedness, supervision, education and income
peers who delay sexual activity
faith community that promotes delaying sex until after marriage
school -- clubs, athletics, success.
I would suggest that if you really wish to help your own child avoid teenage pregnancy that you do have some influence on some of these factors. Although you may already be divorced, and have little education and a low income, you can still do things that increase family connectedness. Here are some suggestions.
Look through family photos. With supplies you already have on hand, (markers, paper, glue) begin an effort at scrapbooking. You may not produce an archival quality scrapbook page, but you will produce a feeling of family connectedness.
Go for a walk together.
Play at the park (softball, basketball, tag, catch).
Check out two copies of the same book from the library and read together.
Sing together.
Go on a sketching expedition. Paper and pencil are the only supplies you need.
Write a letter (snail-mail) to a family member who does not live in your household.
Play a board game or a card game.
Watch a classic TV show together.
Go to a community activity together.
Take a self-defense class together.
go to church together
get together with your child's friends and their families -- have a potluck dinner on Sunday, or Wednesday, or whenever.
Brain-storm together about other things you can do together. If you increase your time together doing things that are fun and interesting, just by 30 min a day or even just by an hour a week, you will be doing something very profound.
Please post your ideas for increasing family connectedness here.
Baby Borrowers: What about the babies? {ParentDish}
Jul 3rd 2008 4:30PM The American Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry just called for NBC to pull the show from it's line-up.
