If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without …

Marian Wright Edelman
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If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.
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