Community Summit

Dr. Keith Debbage, Professor of Urban Development at UNCG, reports that a measure of a community's health is its teenage pregnancy rate. Furthermore, he states that Greensboro and Guilford County's high teenage pregnancy rate (56.8 per 1,000 teens age 15-19) provides bad economic news for our community. As a community, we have got to address this issue. Young people deserve the right to have a life - both as a teenager and as an adult. The two should not have to overlap and merge. I propose we have a community summit to address this issue and as a community, let's work together to prevent unintended teenage pregnancies. I know we can.