1 in 7 girls pregnant at Chicago school

It is a Chicago public school full of energy and spirit. It has about 800 girls, and 115 of them have something in common.

All those young ladies are mothers or mothers-to-be at Paul Robeson High School. It's not a school for young mothers, it's a neighbourhood school. And all of the pregnancies have happened, despite prevention talk.



Chicago Public Schools says it does not track the overall number of teen moms in the district. But Robeson Principal Gerald Morrow knows the count at his school in Englewood: 115 young ladies who are either expecting or already have had children.

"It can be a lot of things that are happening in the home or not happening in the home, if you will," Morrow said. Absentee fathers are another factor, he said.