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I seen my stomach getting bigger and bigger and I knew I knew but I didn't think about it I just kind of went on with my life" —Alicia Fanning and help Alicia get a high school diploma It's a new start "I don't want my son growing up in all the violence" she says "I don't want him out there selling drugs around Red Hook or shooting somebody in the street I just want him to grow up" She will have to work hard to beat the odds which are stacked mothers But it against teen-agcan be done says Frank F Furstenberg Jr a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania "If the mother completes her education — particularly beyond says sociologist Edward Kain author of The Myth of Family Decline It's a cycle Alicia despite limited means and vision would like to break But her attention span is short sentences drifting off unfinished and the long view pretty much limited to the next box of diapers the immediate gratification of a snack at the mall lives" exhorted last month in a controversial speech Nor is she anything like the fictional single mother he attacked: the feisty TV character Murphy Brown a highly educated television journalist who can afford a nanny Getting pregnant at 15 was unpremeditated and just romantic enough to sort of carry Alicia along "I seen my stomach getting bigger and bigger and I knew" she said recently her son balanced on one knee "I knew but I didn't think about it I just kind of went on with my life" She was vaguely overwhelmed and like a lot of adolescents confused by the adult world at her doorstep About 500000 children are born to teen-agmothers each year — 340000 of them to white girls like Alicia Between 100000 and 200000 babies are born each year to fathers between the ages of but little is known about the longterm financial and emotional contributions these fathers make The numbers don't mean much to Alicia She doesn't see herself as part of a larger cyclical story of fatherless children raising fatherless children She only sees this son whose tiny infant arms she once feared would break like twigs when she pulled his jumpsuits on Now Alicia playfully tosses him into the air with ease They've grown used to one another "I seen the movies in science class about how babies are made and stuff" But she'd had no sex education didn't connect action and consequence "didn't know it would happen to me" Months passed before she went to see a doctor She skipped the and parenting free courses dropped out of high school stayed indoors a lot waiting for this alien being inside her to be born Some said she should get an abortion But Alicia was scared it would hurt The pain of childbirth still seemed far away Alicia was just eight months pregnant when she stepped off a Brooklyn curb without looking and was struck by a motorcycle For a terrible moment it seemed her baby might die "The doctors were running around and yelling all these big words I didn't know I didn't know what the hell was going on" said -- 1475 Wrsr NTIT tL'i ti01 tk" LAYTkri pROVO nal 711-- 5664111 3 tipc1 )11114'f:ST 10f10 a7:-3- 3 N1ti i iA1Js— 1 C:4 s: t - Id sig pet rrntt: 111VCOVE111 1f)AM to 9PV 10A24 to 7:3017'4 Clo!zed Sunday 104111 to 71)1k1 Hours- Man-Fr- i The3011ed-Thu- r Saturday k tio" -- 1 1 - MR ' ' NI C web t —7 7: I I " an:3 - 1 n1 L'Al - ':ss-C- -c kt- - ' -- -c W11 - ' F SattirJaV i'''" 4'1 oneEttit 1 71: li |