Article: WHEN KIDS HAVE KIDS The story of Christina Nolan and Allan Orzechowski is the story of a changing America, where more and more children are being born to teen-agers out of wedlock

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Stan Grossfeld is an associate editor of the Globe.

The father -- a tall, thin boy of 16 -- snips the umbilical cord, cradles the baby, proclaims that she looks like a conehead, and then goes to a store to rent the video game Mortal Kombat 2. The 14-year-old mother hugs the infant and then starts munching on M & M's. She says she wasn't thinking about anything during the delivery, that the needles didn't hurt, but that she wanted some Tylenol. There was one surprise, the young mother says: M & M's are not supposed to melt. "The yellow ones are coming off in my hand."

Kasondra Marie Orzechowski came into the world, without crying, at 1:08 p.m. on February 2, 1995 ...

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