Robot babies. Advanced baby dolls. The ones that scream, need their fake diaper changed, get hungry for a plastic bottle with nothing in it all while keeping the same blank ...

Study: Robot baby dolls don’t curb teen pregnancies. In fact, they may increase abortions. ... The babies, which can run about $1,000 apiece, are programmed to cry, scream and sleep.

To help discourage teen pregnancy, many students nationally are given lifelike, robot babies that cry throughout the night. Unlike eggs or plants used to represent babies in some human-development ...

The simulator baby cries when it needs to be fed, burped, rocked or changed and the carer is scored out of 100 for the attention it gives the robot. The doll reports on mishandling, crying time ...

In my high school, getting your robot baby from Coach Mac, the health teacher, was something of a rite of passage. Anyone who wanted extra credit could scribble their name on the sign-up sheet she ...

The numbers don’t look good: 8 percent of the girls who received the dolls had at least one baby by 20, compared to 4 percent of the control group. The numbers for abortion were 9 percent and 6 ...

In 2010, there were more than 7,900 calls to the Monroe County child abuse and neglect hotline. In 2012, 712 girls ages 15 to 19 got pregnant in Rochester. The number was down from 1,352 in 2008 ...

After receiving a baby doll who just wouldn't stop crying for Christmas, 3-year-old Summer Littleford lamented, “I don’t know why Santa did this to me.” Summer’s mother, Ashley Littleford ...

To help discourage teen pregnancy, many students in the Seattle area and nationally are given lifelike, robot babies that cry throughout the night. Unlike eggs or plants used to represent babies ...