Here's a Dollar, Don't Get Pregnant

Paying girls not to get pregnant

The University of North Carolina’s come up with an unusual incentive in hopes of encouraging teen girls not to get pregnant.

In an attempt to reduce the number of teen pregnancies, UNC at Greensboro is providing classes in abstinence and the use of contraceptives to girls ages 12 to 18 — and paying them a dollar a day not to get pregnant.

Girls who attend the 90-minute weekly meetings - and who don’t get pregnant - collect $7 at the end of each week. The money is put aside and can be collected when the girls enter college.

Comments

[David]

So what happens if a) they DO get pregnant using the condoms provided by UNC; or b) they get pregnant but have an abortion?

Of course, the obvious question is:

What's the point of distributing condoms in a class on abstinence?

In my elementary school's S.O.S. (Stamp Out Stupidity) program in the late 60's, they passed out cartoon-like posters illustrating the negative effects of drug use; lampooning users; etc. What they did NOT do was distribute needles, latex gloves, Band-Aids, rubber tubing, etc. "just in case." Essentially, the message was simply: "Just (don't) Do It"