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    gMalone1

    TeenMom. College student. Speaker. Young Parent Advocate. Women's Rights Advocate. Blogger.

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    The Candies foundation has done a great job at repackaging anti-teenage pregnancy messages in a way that youth and celebrities alike pay attention to. However, it has greatly failed at addressing or highlighting the factors that lead to teenage pregnancy and how to avoid an unintended  pregnancy.

    Factors like poverty, which has been found to lead to teenage pregnancy and defy the notion that teenage pregnancy leads to poverty. Lack of comprehensive sex education which has been found to delay the on-set of sexual intercourse, lack of access to preventative …

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    Generational amnesia is a disease many adults suffer from today. Often times older generations seem to negate the fact that they themselves were ever teenagers or young adults.

    Signs of generational amnesia become very apparent when youth behave like youth and are curious about relationships, sexuality, drugs, and sex.
    Symptoms of generational amnesia include statements like:
    • When I was young we listened to our parents and didn’t do___.
    • When I was young we knew better than to disobey our parents.
    • When I was young we knew better than to

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    The other day I was online and came across an article about Ben Affleck and several other political and celebrity figures becoming part of a campaign to raise awareness about global poverty by living on $1.50 a day.

    I thought it was cute… But mostly I thought it was annoying and the same “benevolent rich artist wants to ‘help’ international poverty” campaign.
    While Ben Affleck, Jonah Hill, and Sophia Bush have every right to support public awareness campaigns;
    I can not help but think where is the American poverty …

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    While Boston College is against adult students at the college using and having access to condoms my college LOVED when the student government gave out condom flowers on Condom Day.

    I am one part of my college’s Undergrad Student Governments Health Programming Board. Our campus has a health clinic like many other college campuses however, a lot of students do not know about it. In an effort to get more of my peers to know about the clinic and to be more mindful of the sexual health I decided …

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    As a former teen mom and human I could not help but address the questions and worries of the discontent toddlers in the New York City’s controversial anti-teenage pregnancy ads. 
    Just because I had you as a teen does not mean that you are not capable of doing well in school and graduating high school with honors just as I did. 

    The age I had you is not something that defines my or your future. Hard work, determination, and a good education which starts in a good elementary school

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    On Valentines Day my daughter, Leilani, and I participated in a Flash Mob as part of the One Billion Raising Movement. We danced together and along side hundreds of women to end violence against women.

    At first I tried looking for a baby sitter to watch her while I went but then I realized that this event, the movement, was happening with and for ALL women regardless of age. Having her come with me was what was suppose to happen.
    I explained to her very clearly and honestly …

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    My name is Gloria Malone. I am 22 years old, currently studying at Baruch College, and pursuing a degree in Public Affairs. People, politics and policy have always been an interest and passion of mine so I find most of my courses very interesting.
    In an effort to not simply list the many roles that I have in life I hope that through my writings and post you will get to better understand who I am and how all of my views, realities and the lessons I have learned …