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How to Support the "Young, Poor and Pregnant"

Judith Musick is the director of the Ounce of Prevention Fund, a pregnancy prevention and teenage-parent programs in Illinois, and author of the new book, "Young, Poor and Pregnant: The Psychology of Teenage Motherhood." Musick believes that impoverished adolescent girls become young mothers as an attempt to create a future and an identity.

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Other segments from the episode on March 21, 1995

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, March 21, 1995: Interview with Judith Musick; Interview with Fontella Bass; Review of the television show "NewsRadio."

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