Not Mary Not Roe: The Survival Story of a Reluctant Teen Mom

Ignorance is not bliss. It sets girls up for failure.

The good news is, in America, teen pregnancy has steadily declined since the early nineties. The bad news is there are still girls raising children, and fifty percent of them won't graduate from high school.

Leslie Hope Holthoff was a scared little girl, overwhelmed by shame and self-hatred, whose tools for understanding sex and knowing how to stop itsimply didn't exist. By the time she was staring at two pink lines on a pregnancy test whe...