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Institute for Public Service Reporting – Memphis

All posts tagged "teen birth"

“Legislators are making it more difficult to have honest conversations about safe and healthy sexuality, and the consequences of that could be huge,” said Lisa Moore, president and CEO of Girls Inc. in Memphis. Moore is pictured June 10, 2021, with architectural renderings of the new Patricia C. Howard Campus. (Lucy Garrett/Special to The Daily Memphian file)

“Legislators are making it more difficult to have honest conversations about safe and healthy sexuality, and the consequences of that could be huge,” said Lisa Moore, president and CEO of Girls Inc. in Memphis. Moore is pictured June 10, 2021, with architectural renderings of the new Patricia C. Howard Campus. (Lucy Garrett/Special to The Daily Memphian file)

Education

Loss of funding, reproductive rights raise concerns about teen births

There’s no great mystery about why teen births have been declining steadily in Shelby County for 15 years. “Education and contraception work,” said Ashley...

David WatersSeptember 13, 2022

Jackie Johnson, a 23-year-old mother of two, reads to her children, Cordale, 4, and Markel, 1, before school. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)

Jackie Johnson, a 23-year-old mother of two, reads to her children, Cordale, 4, and Markel, 1, before school. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)

Education

Transforming the city one teen mom at a time

Jackie Johnson, a 23-year-old single mother of two, lives on a street in South Memphis that has more vacant lots and abandoned houses than...

David WatersSeptember 12, 2022