Another 29 Year Old GrandmotherQuad-City area teenagers are still having babies. But the good news is that fewer teens are doing so across the region — and in Iowa, Illinois and the United States as a whole — than 10 years ago.
Some say the teens who are having babies seem to be getting younger and younger, including a few junior high or middle school students, but the most recent state health department
statistics available do not closely track the ages of teen parents.
What the statistics do show is an overall decline in births among people younger than 20 years since about 1995.
And then there are stories such as Celia’s.
She sits clad in pink Eeyore pajamas, flipping through channels from her hospital bed.
The room is dark and quiet, just right for sleeping. But Celia Magee is wide-awake. She can’t stop looking down at the tiny boy cradled in her left arm.
“I don’t know even what color his eyes are yet,” she says. “He never opens his eyes.”
Russell Eugene is 1 day old.
His mother is 15. (more...)
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