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[quote=Anonymous]Until we can get a handle on the epidemic of teen pregnancies in Wards 7 & 8, this whole boundary discussion is like rearranging the deck furniture on the Titanic.  I don't know what the answer is, but this topic has to be part of the conversation.

Teen pregnancies stay stubbornly high in poor D.C. wards

By Robert McCartney,

It was sad and sobering to hear the teenage mothers and mothers-to-be from the District’s poorest neighborhoods discuss why so many in their communities get pregnant so young.

They said they and their friends don’t expect to go to college or have careers, so there’s less reason to delay having children. They said their part of the city east of the Anacostia River lacks restaurants, theaters and other entertainment, so young people are more likely to turn to sex as an alternative.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/teen-pregnancies-stay-stubbornly-high-in-poor-dc-wards-low-expectations-are-cited/2014/01/29/0e65b1a4-8927-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html 
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