Bibliography #2

Rinaldo, Denise. "The Touch Life Of A Teen Mom." Scholastic Choices 25.4 (2010): 4-7. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 7 Feb. 2011.

In this article, “The Touch Life Of A Teen Mom” Denise Rinaldo describes how United States has the highest teen birth rate in the industrialized world. Every year the number of teen pregnancies increase. Rinaldo also discuss the downfalls of teen moms. Teen moms are likely to drop out of school and experience poverty. In this article, 16 year old Jesseca Heatherly talks about her story about being a teen mom.

This article is aimed towards teen moms. Jesseca talks about her struggles and what she went through to overcome those struggles. Between school, work, and caring for her daughter, Bella, Jesseca has no free time for herself. She is extremely happy with an organization called The Children and Family Resource Center. She relied on them for help such as food, diapers and everything a baby might need. I think that this article is a little bias due to the fact that it only aims to teen moms instead of pregnant moms in general. All mothers need help regardless if you’re single or not. Raising a baby is money. As for credibility, there is pics of Jesseca and her baby reading a book and eating cake which makes the story seem true.

This article applies to Baby Steps because just as in the article Jesseca used a program called The Children and Family Resource Center. The group helped her get medical care while she was pregnant just as baby Steps does with women of low income. The program also helped Jesseca enroll in a alternative high school with an on-site-day-care center. Teen moms as well as single moms are steadily increasing. Jesseca is raising awareness that teen moms can graduate from high school. That is a big accomplishment because most teen moms give up on their education. The program helped her get a job from day care and she applied to college. I agree with everything the Family Resource Center does because it parallels with what Baby Steps tries to aim.

I feel like why do single teen moms have to rely on an organization to get through their problems. Jesseca couldn’t rely on a family member to help her out financially? As I went to orientation the women there are in the same predicament as Jesseca is. Most of them are teen moms with no spouse and have no money coming in. Baby Steps is a good program to help with low income families.