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A short article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about the Nurturing Network and other efforts to help pregnant college students:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mary Cunningham Agee, founder of the Nurturing Network, a private foundation that provides financial assistance and academic guidance to women who have unplanned pregnancies, says Roman Catholic institutions are generally the "most forward-thinking and accommodating" places for students with children.<\/p>\n

Ms. Agee has helped hundreds of such students transfer to Catholic colleges from secular or evangelical institutions. Some religious colleges \u2014 particularly those where students sign a code of conduct that forbids them to have premarital sex \u2014 expel students who become pregnant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Nurturing Network website (the group doesn’t just help college students, by the way)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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