Childcare Centers in High Schools: Wrong message?

Question

By providing daycare within the high schools are we sending the wrong message to these teenagers? The "pregnancy pact" girls have a daycare in their high school. Does this send the message of acceptance of unmarried teenage pregnancy? And do the presence of these centers give girls yet another reason to keep the baby instead of putting the child up for adoption? Your thoughts, please.

Answer 1

As much as everyone hates to admit it, s*x among teenagers has been going on for a long time.  So it seems the schools are finally getting the idea that it's not going to change.  They have tried to teach abstinence and birth control and so far it doesn't seem to have a very big impact.  

In the past when teen pregnancy was frowned on the girls would just quit school and go on welfare.  

I think the schools are doing the best with the situation they have and at least the girls are getting an education.   They should still be giving parenting classes to these children and showing them the difference their lives will be with and without a baby, even though they already have one and that they do have the option of giving the baby up if they find out it is too hard to do.

Also I hope they are telling the girls about safe zones where they can leave an unwanted baby with no questions asked....hospitals, police dept, and fire dept.

Answer 2

i think there should be special schools for young mothers, but not childcare centers in school.  some teens get pregnant though just accidents but some honestly think a baby is only slightly more difficult than raising a doll and providing childcare in schools not only adds to that notion but also suggests that EVERYONE is doing it.

Answer 3

The pregnancy pact girls did not get pregnant because there was a day care at the school. They did it because they were either

a) mindless sheep who follow the crowd

b) idiots

c) begging for attention.

They got pregnant because they wanted to. They were selfish and and didn't care about the baby, the baby's father, their parents, their future, etc. They saw Angelina and all the other celebs with them and thought that it would be cute, just like how they thought having a little dog would be cute because Paris Hilton had one. This is not the day care or the school's fault, it is the girls' faults for being stupid and immature and for thinking of babies as dolls and not human beings.

Answer 4

I think there should be separate schools where girls go to if they are pregnant. Having one in a public school encourages teens to get pregnant because then they just assume that the school will take care of them. I think it sends the message that "it's ok...you can get pregnant and still go to school because we'll take care of it for you!" Plus, I do believe it gives girl's incentive to keep their babies because they are still able to go to school and be a mother at the same time.

Answer 5

I think it's a good option that allows a teenage mother to finish school so she can hopefully go further in life.

Answer 6

Well, at my old high school we had a daycare. Our community has a bad problem with unprotected s*x. We have a high pregnancy and std rate. [That's why I married a guy from another county. lol.] Our town officials have taken the abstinence route and it has gotten us nowhere. I think that s*x ed classes should be about safe s*x, not abstaining from it.

We had a daycare installed for the teachers first, but students began being able to use it. There has been no increase in the amount of pregnancies because of this. Our pregnancy rate has remainded the same. I don't really believe that childcare centers send out any message other than life doesn't end when you get pregnant. I know a lot of girls who would've had to quit school if it wasn't for the childcare center.

Answer 7

one the reason there is a daycare is bc all those girls got pregnant and they thought of putting it after that, they didn't have one before hand. i would rather them have the daycare and continue school then drop and then what? and second having a child and being married is not the only way to live life, no its not great that teens are having babies, but it doesn't mean that people who are older have anymore right to have a baby or keep it for that matter. just because your young does not mean u should give ur child up for adoption, keeping ur baby can be the best thing for some young mothers, it was for me and ive seen many other people that it was best for too. the comment about adoption is really an ignorant one, its not like if the daycare wasn't put there the girls would have said u know what i dont want my baby THERES NO DAYCARE IN MY SCHOOL...ahhh no that doesn't matter. no all the teens out there shouldn't be having babies, but not all of them should have to give it up bc they're young. do u know how many kids are already in foster care and waiting to be adopted? so lets add to that number? lets make sure that the young mothers don't take responsibility? you're ridiculous and dumb those are my thoughts

Answer 8

Not at all. I had one in my school and ended up working in it when I graduated. The childcare center was for the teachers and their children and outside people looking for a place for their children. It was not for the students who went there. Having a childcare center in your school doesn't advertise teenagers to get pregnant just so they can enroll their child their. Even if a student did get pregnant at least they had an option to stay in school with a childcare center in their school. I doubt all those girls with the "Pregnancy Pack" chose to get pregnant just because they had a childcare center in their school. Just because they are a teen parents doesn't mean they should put their child up for adoption also. I have several friends who got pregnant as teens and they all chose to keep their children. They all finished school, even went on to college, and have great jobs. A couple are still single yet have been able to provide for their children even without the assistance from their parents or child's father.