"The messages on the posters are not subtle, and they're not meant to be: a crying toddler with the caption, "I'm twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen," reads one, while another shows a little girl saying, "Honestly Mom… chances are he won't stay with you. What happens to me?"...
"Bloomberg has defended the so-called fear campaign, which also includes a text message game where one pregnant teen is called a "loser" (it was originally "fat loser," but that has been changed) by her best friend. He told the New York Times that the city's message shouldn't be "value neutral" about teen pregnancy and that he wanted to "send a strong message that teen pregnancy has consequences - and those consequences are extremely negative, life-altering and most often disproportionately borne by young women."...
http://www.newstoday.com.bd/index.php?option=details&news_id=2342844&date=2013-04-22
NYC.gov Teen Pregnancy Campaign page:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/hra/html/programs/teen_pregnancy_campaign.shtml
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