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To: Neocon who wrote (3460)	11/27/2002 11:25:36 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

The group home idea might work. I was a "counsellor" at a Catholic group home for pregnant girls -- the nuns really pressured the girls to give up the babies and go back home -- if they didn't, they were sent back to the same environment that failed them in the first place. Counsellor was like summer camp counsellor -- I mostly helped provide structure, like supervising group meal preparation and clean up, and laundry, and room cleaning, and took them on outings and helped them with activities and homework. I can see how they would have benefitted from a continuous provision of structure afterwards, but that would have meant condoning teen pregnancy, which I don't think the Catholic Church was up for at the time, maybe never. Certainly it's a better solution than putting them back into the environment they came from, in many (most?) cases.