Teens Get $1 a Day Not to Get Pregnant

What teens won’t do for a little spending money! No, not THAT. In fact, the very opposite of THAT. A North Carolina program is paying teen girls to NOT get pregnant.

In addition to attending weekly meetings, the girls ages twelve to eighteen in the College-Bound Sisters are given a stipend of $1 a day to keep their legs closed. Continue reading »

A Son Who Forgives His Dad for Intentionally Giving Him AIDS

Imagine growing up with the HIV virus. Now imagine living with the knowledge that you have the disease because your father intentionally gave it to you when you were an infant.

That’s been the reality for Brryan Jackson, who is now 18 and, as the Associated Press reports, graduated yesterday from his high school in St. Charles, Mo.  Jackson is coping well physically with his disease — doctors say he is in good health and is now down to taking five medications daily, a significant decrease from what he once had to consume. He’s also managed to do something few people would have the strength to do: forgive his father for secretly injecting him with a syringe filled with HIV-tainted blood when he was just 11-months-old.

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Meet the 11-Year-Old College Grad

Prepare to feel like a total eejit, even if you’ve got a master’s degree and a pretty snazzy job. Because chances are, you weren’t eleven years old when you graduated from your first college.

Eleven-year-old Moshe Kai Cavalin will graduate with honors from a California community college this week with a liberal arts degree. Continue reading »

Student Fights for the Right to Wear Pants at Graduation

Feeling a little nostalgic for the 1950s? You might want to consider moving to Chapin, South Carolina, where the high school requires all female students to wear a dress to graduation. Continue reading »