Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Is this enough?

College Bound Sisters pays $1/day to 12-to-18-year-old girls to reward them for not getting pregnant.
Some recent graduates earned more than $2,000 and are an inspiration to those still in the program."I might want to be a teacher for a few years and then be a lawyer," said 12-year-old Chelsey Davis. "I might want to be an actor or singer," another girl in the program, Amanda Davis, added. Program director Laurie Smith said those aspirations are more achievable because of the incentives the program provides and the friendships it helps create.Smith said nearly 100 percent of the girls who finish the program have gone on to graduate college.
However, if a girl drops out or gets pregnant, her money is divided among the other girls still in the program.

1 comment:

  1. Provides an interesting incentive for teenage girls to get other teenage girls pregnant. Hmm.

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