Program for Teenage Fathers Seeks To Nurture Responsibility

By Deborah L. Cohen

LANCASTER, PA.--When Patricia Kinsey introduces a "Teen Parent Prevention Panel'' at J.P. McCaskey High School here, she often breaks the ice with the following exercise.

First, she points to 10 males in the class and asks them to stand. Then she asks them to pretend they are teenage fathers and to answer this question: "Will I stay with the mother of the baby and will I take responsibility for my children?''

Those who answer "yes'' are instructed to sit down. Inevitably, she said,...