THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, June 17, 1995 TAG: 9506170427
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: BRIEFS
DATELINE: HAMPTON ROADS LENGTH: Short : 28 lines
``Someone to Love Me,'' a one-hour documentary about teenage pregnancy in Hampton Roads, will air on WTKR, Channel 3, Sunday at 8 p.m.
The program examines why unmarried girls - sometimes as young as 11 or 12 years old - are having babies. It also examines the physical and social risks they face when they become pregnant.
It is sponsored by the Junior League of Norfolk/Virginia Beach, WTKR and Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters.
``We felt that this, as much as any of the other issues in the community, is very important to shed light on,'' said hospital spokeswoman Amy Sampson Wendel. The goal of the program, she said, is to ``find some answers . . . or at least get a discussion going.''
``We see a lot of teens in our hospital that have babies; we see the results of teen pregnancies in our neonatal intensive-care unit, and we want to try and prevent that.'' by CNB