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State budget cuts threaten programs for teen parents
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Bay State Banner
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March 2, 2006
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- Rao, Vidya
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Rao, Vidya
Bay State Banner
03-02-2006
Amelia Lopez just didn't know. She was in seventh grade, and what little
she learned about sex at Sacred Heart Catholic School didn't prepare her,
not really, for the realities of raising a child.
She still remembers the moment when she looked at the pregnancy test and it
read "positive."
She was all of 14 years old.
"I didn't understand because I was actually happy about being pregnant -- I
felt like I was playing house," she says. "But I had no idea what I was
getting into."
Lopez grew up in Roslindale with her mother. She had Amelia when she was 18
years old. Amelia's father was not around much; nor is the father of her
child.
"When I became pregnant, my mom ...
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