239B.10 Minor and young parents — other requirements.
1. Living arrangement. Unless any of the following conditions apply, a minor parent shall be required to live with the minor’s parent or legal guardian:
a. The parent or guardian of the minor parent is deceased, missing, or living in another state.
b. The minor parent’s health or safety would be jeopardized if the minor parent is required to live with the parent or guardian.
c. The minor parent is in foster care.
d. The minor parent is participating in the job corps solo parent program or independent living program.
e. Other good cause exists, which is identified in rules adopted by the department for this purpose, for the minor parent to participate in the family investment program while living apart from the minor parent’s parent or guardian.
2. Family development. A minor parent who is a participant and is not required to live with the minor parent’s parent or guardian pursuant to subsection 1 shall be required to participate in a family development program identified in rules adopted by the department.
3. Parenting classes. Participant parents who are nineteen years of age or younger shall be required to attend parenting classes.
4. Education. The department shall require, subject to the availability of child care for a minor parent’s children, that a minor parent must either have graduated from high school or have received a high school equivalency diploma, or be engaged full-time in completing high school graduation or equivalency requirements.
5. Earnings disregard. In determining family investment program eligibility and calculating the amount of assistance, the department shall disregard earnings of an applicant or a participant who is nineteen years of age or younger who is engaged full-time in completing high school graduation or equivalency requirements.
6. Family planning. The department shall do all of the following with newly eligible and existing participant parents:
a. Discuss orally and in writing the financial implications of newly born children on the participant’s family.
b. Discuss orally and in writing the available family planning resources.
c. Include family planning counseling as an optional component of the JOBS program.
d. Include the participant’s family planning objectives in the family investment agreement.
97 Acts, ch 41, §11, 34; 99 Acts, ch 192, §33
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