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The rates of teen pregnancies are decreasing increasing overall, but there are still teens living the life a single parent, or married with children, and now that the baby is here still have problems to face.

Therefore, if you are a single teen parent and need, some questions answered about issues and concerns, which affect your life, please send us your letters or questions. We will post them anonymously for other people who have been in your shoes to answer.

We just ask that you include your age and city and state. The reason we request city and state, is in case you have questions, which require referrals to services in your area. Any names you list in your correspondence will be changed. I hope that someone will be able to provide helpful suggestions. Send email with “Teen Parenting Questions” in the subject line of your email. We're not social services professionals, but someone can provide life experience examples, which may help.

Check out this babies having babies story: Article: Teen pregnancies in Q-C region: Baby starts new role for teenage mom

Update 12/5/7: How ironic it is that after I write this article, this evening I see a news headline “First Rise in U.S. Teen Births Since '91.” READ MORE...from the U.S. News & World Report.

Right now, I am watching this Judy Woodruff PBS documentary for the second time, which has a segment on 23-year-old single parent and mother of three, Lakeesha Perry. This young woman is determined to make it in life. I am rooting for her. She is taking courses towards an engineering degree and interns at General Motors, and has a tough life. A smart girl with not so smart decisions.

Life would have been much simpler as a single student first. Why do we do things backwards? Babies first, then everything else such as education, work, and then marriage if we are lucky? Yes, I know her babies are already here….etc., etc., but I am interested in what we can do to prevent situations such as hers. Where are we getting are messages from? How do we stop the cycle? This is one young person I would like to correspond with as soon as possible. E-mail me Lakeesha if you have time.

PBS reports:

“Never Say Can't

Tuesday, August 29, 2006
The Plains Trip, Detroit, Michigan (Day 4)

It's a cliché to say that someone has lived several lifetimes, but in the case of 23-year-old LaKeesha Perry, it's close to the truth. She has gone through more in her lifetime than most people anywhere, much less her peers. And she maintains a schedule her friends find unbelievable.

LaKeesha has an associate's degree, and is now studying for a bachelor's in manufacturing technology at Wayne State University. She's also working full-time in a General Motors internship program that rotates her through different departments.

But her sons -- ages 8, 2 and 8 months -- occupy just about every other minute of her waking hours…

But at 14, LaKeesha began to hang out at what she describes as her older brother's unsupervised "fun house," where "friends" were always coming and going. There finally came a day when her mother noticed something, and took LaKeesha to the doctor.

"My mom had never explained what led to babies," she told me. "I was surprised when I found out I was pregnant." ” READ MORE…

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