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There seems to be a pregnancy pact among highschoolers in Mass. I wonder if some of the males will end up with multiple kids. This could get interesting.



A pregnancy pact may be responsible for a dramatic rise in young mothers-to-be at a Massachusetts high school, Time magazine reports.

Seventeen girls at the 1,200-student Gloucester High School had positive pregnancy tests, more than four times the rate the previous year, the magazine said in a story published online Wednesday.

On Thursday, the local newspaper, Gloucester Daily Times, reported the number had risen to 18.

Principal Joseph Sullivan told the news weekly that nearly half the pregnant teens, all age 16 or younger, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together.

Officials at the school in Gloucester, a city about 50 kilometres north of Boston, began looking into the rise in teen mothers after an unusually high number of girls began getting pregnancy tests at the school clinic.

"Some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," said Sullivan.

He also told the magazine that one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless man



http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/06/2 ... ncies.html

YZGI;893756 wrote: There seems to be a pregnancy pact among highschoolers in Mass. I wonder if some of the males will end up with multiple kids. This could get interesting.



A pregnancy pact may be responsible for a dramatic rise in young mothers-to-be at a Massachusetts high school, Time magazine reports.

Seventeen girls at the 1,200-student Gloucester High School had positive pregnancy tests, more than four times the rate the previous year, the magazine said in a story published online Wednesday.

On Thursday, the local newspaper, Gloucester Daily Times, reported the number had risen to 18.

Principal Joseph Sullivan told the news weekly that nearly half the pregnant teens, all age 16 or younger, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together.

Officials at the school in Gloucester, a city about 50 kilometres north of Boston, began looking into the rise in teen mothers after an unusually high number of girls began getting pregnancy tests at the school clinic.

"Some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," said Sullivan.

He also told the magazine that one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless man



http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/06/2 ... ncies.html


I guess some of them won't be getting child support...

That is really sad.

I saw on tv yesterday that they made this pact because they low self esteem and wanted to be loved by their babies.

That's gross.

What are we teaching (or not teaching) girls that they would want to do this? Someone failed somewhere.

qsducks;893777 wrote: I saw on tv yesterday that they made this pact because they low self esteem and wanted to be loved by their babies.


We have that going on in our schools, girls with low self esteem just wanting to have a baby. The cold hard reality is it's hard work, sleepless niights, tantrums, as a parent everything that goes wrong for them somehow becomes your fault. I find it hard to cope with it all now, I know for sure I wouldn't have been able to cope at the age of 16! Yes we all love our children but they don't always turn out to be loving children, they don't come pre programmed to be perfect cuddly bouncy happy go lucky souls do they? They learn a lot of that from their parents, so what are these kids going to learn? Not a good outlook for them thats for sure.

Betty Boop;893800 wrote: We have that going on in our schools, girls with low self esteem just wanting to have a baby. The cold hard reality is it's hard work, sleepless niights, tantrums, as a parent everything that goes wrong for them somehow becomes your fault. I find it hard to cope with it all now, I know for sure I wouldn't have been able to cope at the age of 16! Yes we all love our children but they don't always turn out to be loving children, they don't come pre programmed to be perfect cuddly bouncy happy go lucky souls do they? They learn a lot of that from their parents, so what are these kids going to learn? Not a good outlook for them thats for sure.


I agree. They didn't ask to be born. I just dread thinking bout what their lives will be like once "mommy" figures out that it is no walk in the park trying to raise a baby. Also, what kind of parents to these girls have that think it's allright to have a baby too young?

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(Thanks rjw, did'nt see the First thread)

truly discouraging...

These kids still have not figured out dating, love, friendship, careers, education, finances, drivers licences, hair styles, shoes etc....

How on earth will they figure out parenthood, I still struggle with it.

I know Jr Minks has friends from 16-20 who talk ceaselessly about having babies and she simply does not subscribe. She tells them to talk to her sister who had her son at 18. No regrets about my grandson believe me but I see the roller coaster my daughter rides.... no thank you (bless her heart for being great mind you)

How very, very sad. Along with the unconditional love comes a lot of :-5. I think every teenager should be assigned a new mother to stay with for the first three nights their baby is home. I'm sure all moms could use the extra hands and it would scare the hell out of a lot of teenagers!

hotsauce;894554 wrote: How very, very sad. Along with the unconditional love comes a lot of :-5. I think every teenager should be assigned a new mother to stay with for the first three nights their baby is home. I'm sure all moms could use the extra hands and it would scare the hell out of a lot of teenagers!


yep that and having to stay home while your friends are out having fun, not to mention the cost of having a baby... granted a baby is priceless but but diapers are not

What a terrible sad thing, "Babies" having Babies!!! :wah:

I heard this story on the radio the other day riding in my car, my 13 year old son was asking me a question and I couldn't focus on that, because of hearing how these girls made a pact to get pregnant....and even slept with a homeless man....:-1

This is very sad indeed, I remember being in high school and having friends having babies, and one girl would bring her baby to the wild parties...I was upset at that at the age of 17.....I worried about that baby being around loud music and drunk people etc....but she didn't....she was having fun with everyone without a care in the world....that is NO life for a baby! and unfortunately this is what happens a lot when kids have kids, they aren't responsibile and mature enough to have care for a helpless human being! oh this really upsets me!:-1