College Bound Sisters, a program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro thinks so!

This program is for girls who are ages 12 to 18 who have a desire to go to college and who also have an older sister who got pregnant before she was 18. There is a 90 minute meeting every week where the girls discuss abstinance and how to have safe sex (if they were to choose to have sex). At each meeting, each girl who has made it another week without getting pregnant receives $7 in a fund they can use once they get to college.

Bill Albert, chief program officer at the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy said "It makes me a bit uneasy. I  do have mixed feelings. It's hard to pay people to do something that we think they should be doing regardless. It would be like if you didn't want young people to experiment with marijuana, you'd pay them not to do it."

Albert also mentioned that currently 3 in every 10 girls in the US get pregnant before the age of 20 and that the associated costs of these pregnancies exceed $9 BILLION annually.

Wow. I had no idea! Anyway, what do you think of this program? Good idea? Bad idea? Indifferent?