Program focuses on prevention (The Pekin Daily Times)

Times correspondent PEKIN - According to officials, every student at Pekin Community High School got a flier inviting their parents to a pro-active drug prevention program co-hosted by Pekin Park District and Tazwood Mental Health in Pekin.

Teen pregnancy epidemic 'a myth' (Independent)

Around 95 per cent of Britons believe that the country is in the grip of a teen pregnancy epidemic, a myth that ministers and health agencies have warned is 'normalising' pregnancy amongst under 16's and pushing up teenage pregnancy rates, the Independent has learned.

More moms are unmarried -- and for many, it's a choice (The Champaign News-Gazette)

Tammie Deaville loved the man she lived with for eight years. Divorced and the mother of a young son when she moved in with him, she thought eventually they'd get married. He'd told her he didn't want more kids, and he meant it.

School turns to parents to stop teen pregnancies (Daily Dispatch)

A BRAELYNN school principal has expressed concern for his pupils after the school recorded an unprecedented number of teenage pregnancies this year.

The Natchez Democrat (The Natchez Democrat)

Pete Walley, with Institutions of Higher Learning, speaks on poverty in Mississippi Tuesday afternoon during the City of Natchez’s Poverty Town Hall Public Hearing at the city’s Council Chambers.