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MANILA, Philippines — Quezon City 1st district Rep. Juan Carlos “Arjo” Atayde is pushing for the passage of a measure seeking to prevent adolescent pregnancy in the country, which has the highest teenage birth rates among member-states…
She dreamed of becoming a teacher. But at 14, Catherine Caritero found herself pregnant. It was February 2001 and Catherine was a second year high school student at a public school in Lapu-Lapu City. She broke the…
An underaged drug suspect was caught by police with P35,000 worth of shabu at a checkpoint in Barangay San Roque, Talisay City at 10 p.m last Tuesday, May 1. Three others were arrested in separate drug busts…
Recent updates on children’s concerns have highlighted the issue of teenage pregnancy. The Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study stressed that “The victims of teenage pregnancy are the girl herself, her child, her parents and relatives and…
A senior high school student jumped off the seventh floor of a college building in Barangay Kalubihan, Cebu City, on Thursday afternoon. The student, a 17-year old girl, was rushed to the hospital but was later pronounced…
What do the rising number of teenage pregnancies, online sexual extortion and cyberpornography cases have in common? They all involve youths, mostly underage and female, who are victimized by sexual predators either old enough to be their…
Hungry teen roamed Cebu streets for four days with P300 The young man who almost jumped off a billboard Friday night had roamed Metro Cebu for four days without a place to sleep or a full meal.…
Here’s one reason teenage girls should avoid having premarital sex. More than half of the 6,670 cases of cervical cancer in the country were contracted by teenage girls last year, the Department of Health in Central Visayas…
Like any teenager, 16-year old “J” wants to be home for Christmas but she’s stuck in Cebu. The prosecutor handling the estafa complaint filed against the minor from Southern Leyte for non-payment of over P2,000 in salon…
She’s not going home to Southern Leyte yet. The 16-year-old girl who was detained for failing to pay her bills in a resort, will have to stay in Cebu for the meantime to complete her “reformation,” a…
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