Topic: Paying girls not to get pregnant

murph04

Sounds like a perfect topic for Maury, no?

It's happening right here in NC.

 https://www.higheredmorning.com/paying-girls-not-to-get-pregnant

Discuss. 

 

becki777

I'm one handed right now but LOL at one of the responses to the article. MrsG is that you??

1. Karen G Says:
   July 8th, 2009 at 10:32 am

   Sounds like a bonanza for young lesbian girls ? to be paid not to get pregnant. Easy money.

 

murph04

Yes, some of the comments are pretty interesting.

Paul:

 So for $8 a week they?d be willing to have sex?

I?m noticing a minor flaw in their plan.

terpbrideinnc

This is just silly, IMO. $7 isn't enough to motivate teens who want to have sex, from having sex. You can earn more working at the mall for 90 minutes. I think the time with your peers and parents throughout the week would be a lot more influential than those meetings & the $.

MrsMcJamie

I'm not sure what I think. I guess w/ this, as w/ any cash incentive programs you can potentially confuse success in the program with understanding of the goals. You get paid to do something, or not do something but the paying has to end at some point. So it might be a means to an end, but I guess the education would have to fill in the gaps so that when they go to college they don't just go crazy bc they were saving themselves for college.

I remember in elem school feeling cheated bc I got all A's and some of my fellow students did also but their parent's paid them per A they earned. But with that - how long do you continue to incentivize good grades w/ cash? At some point, the child's own satisfaction at doing a good job has to take over.

I guess it sounds like a good theory and is probably effective on some girls. I guess they're looking for whatever might work.

And Karen G (whoever that is ) made a good point - when they're only incentivizing the ultimate manifestation of sexual activity - geting pregnant - they're signing off on all other forms of sexual conduct which still carries risk of STDs.

ECUGirl2004

Funny that they're not paying them not to have sex, but not to get pregnant.  I managed to have sex in high school and I didn't get pregnant.  Same goes for all of my friends who were sexually active (though one of my sister's friends did get pregnant).