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Sunday, April 6, 2008

I imagine most of you either read the front page story in last Sunday's edition of the Omaha World-Herald or have heard about it by now. It was about how births to unwed teens feed generations of poverty. It particularly focused on two black women, Samona Jones and her daughter, Keyana. Samona was pregnant with her first child when she was 13; Keyana first became pregnant when she was 14. Samona is now 31 and is soon to deliver her 12th child, from several different fathers. She has never been married. Because of a recent legislative change that repealed a cap on Aid to Dependent Children, the two women receive nearly $2,000 a month from the government.

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