Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Football and babies

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Canton, Ohio - home of The Pro Football Hall of Fame, Marilyn Manson, and a whole lot of pregnant teens:

"This may seem impossible to you, but it’s true. Sixty-five — again, 65 — of Timken High School’s 490 girl students are pregnant.

"According to the Canton Health Department, through July, 104 of 586 babies born to Canton residents in Aultman Hospital and Mercy Medical Center — the county’s largest hospitals — had mothers between 11 and 19. That’s nearly 18 percent, or three times the total number of babies born at the same hospitals to teen parents living elsewhere in Stark County and beyond."