17 High School Girls Make Vow to Get Pregnant...and go through with it!

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Found this on Drudge. Makes me lose hope for the future generation. Well, makes me lose hope even more so than before.

As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies—more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year. Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for glamorizing young unwed mothers. But principal Joseph Sullivan knows at least part of the reason there's been such a spike in teen pregnancies in this Massachusetts fishing town. School officials started looking into the matter as early as October after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant. By May, several students had returned multiple times to get pregnancy tests, and on hearing the results, "some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Sullivan says. All it took was a few simple questions before nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Then the story got worse. "We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy," the principal says, shaking his head.

The question of what to do next has divided this fiercely Catholic enclave. Even with national data showing a 3% rise in teen pregnancies in 2006—the first increase in 15 years—Gloucester isn't sure it wants to provide easier access to birth control. In any case, many residents worry that the problem goes much deeper. The past decade has been difficult for this mostly white, mostly blue-collar city (pop. 30,000). In Gloucester, perched on scenic Cape Ann, the economy has always depended on a strong fishing industry. But in recent years, such jobs have all but disappeared overseas, and with them much of the community's wherewithal. "Families are broken," says school superintendent Christopher Farmer. "Many of our young people are growing up directionless."

The girls who made the pregnancy pact—some of whom, according to Sullivan, reacted to the news that they were expecting with high fives and plans for baby showers—declined to be interviewed. So did their parents. But Amanda Ireland, who graduated from Gloucester High on June 8, thinks she knows why these girls wanted to get pregnant. Ireland, 18, gave birth her freshman year and says some of her now pregnant schoolmates regularly approached her in the hall, remarking how lucky she was to have a baby. "They're so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally," Ireland says. "I try to explain it's hard to feel loved when an infant is screaming to be fed at 3 a.m."

The high school has done perhaps too good a job of embracing young mothers. Sex-ed classes end freshman year at Gloucester, where teen parents are encouraged to take their children to a free on-site day-care center. Strollers mingle seamlessly in school hallways among cheerleaders and junior ROTC. "We're proud to help the mothers stay in school," says Sue Todd, CEO of Pathways for Children, which runs the day-care center.

But by May, after nurse practitioner Kim Daly had administered some 150 pregnancy tests at Gloucester High's student clinic, she and the clinic's medical director, Dr. Brian Orr, a local pediatrician, began to advocate prescribing contraceptives regardless of parental consent, a practice at about 15 public high schools in Massachusetts. Currently Gloucester teens must travel about 20 miles (30 km) to reach the nearest women's health clinic; younger girls have to get a ride or take the train and walk. But the notion of a school handing out birth control pills has met with hostility. Says Mayor Carolyn Kirk: "Dr. Orr and Ms. Daly have no right to decide this for our children." The pair resigned in protest on May 30.

Gloucester's elected school committee plans to vote later this summer on whether to provide contraceptives. But that won't do much to solve the issue of teens wanting to get pregnant. Says rising junior Kacia Lowe, who is a classmate of the pactmakers': "No one's offered them a better option." And better options may be a tall order in a city so uncertain of its future. —with reporting by Kimberley McLeod/New York
 
I don't even know how to respond to this.
 
Sounds like some bad parenting going on in Gloucester. On multiple levels from multiple generations.

jag
 
Sounds like some bad parenting going on in Gloucester. On multiple levels from multiple generations.

jag

And even more generations to come. Wonder how happy they'll be in a few years trying to raise a child by themselves with a minimum wage job, since I doubt these girls are gonna be going to college. Can't understand why anyone would want that much responsibility at that age, they're giving up the best years of their life. Being a mommy can wait another 10 years, get out see the world, have fun, you can't do any of that if you're a mommy.
 
And even more generations to come. Wonder how happy they'll be in a few years trying to raise a child by themselves with a minimum wage job, since I doubt these girls are gonna be going to college.

If they think having a child will guarantee them "unconditional love" then they are in for a VERY rude awakening, that's all I can say.

jag
 
If they think having a child will guarantee them "unconditional love" then they are in for a VERY rude awakening, that's all I can say.

jag

I doubt they themselves gave their parents "unconditional love" either.
 
If only they put that much effort and promise into becoming scientists, teachers, or ****es.....
 
If they think having a child will guarantee them "unconditional love" then they are in for a VERY rude awakening, that's all I can say.

jag

Yeah, just wait till these girls are 30 and having to deal with teenagers.
 
..well they can't all be good little girls like me :grin:
but in all seriousness, that's just stupid. making a pact? c'mon! i feel bad for those future kids :csad:
 
That's really pretty insane. It's like those little girls who play with baby dolls and act like mommy, only these 17 girls never grew out of it and are making a huge, non-plastic mistake.
 
Am I the only one who finds this ****ing hilarious! She slept with a homeless man so she could get pregnant! Bwhahaha!!

But yea, the world is doomed. :D
 
Am I the only one who finds this ****ing hilarious! She slept with a homeless man so she could get pregnant! Bwhahaha!!

But yea, the world is doomed. :D

Yeah, that's pretty funny, does she realize half her kids genetic makeup is that of a homeless dude. Would love to hear the conversation when the kid asks who her father is;
"Mommy, why don't I have a Daddy?"
"You do have a Daddy, you know that guy we pass on the way to Wal-Mart? He's your Daddy"
 
Am I the only one who finds this ****ing hilarious! She slept with a homeless man so she could get pregnant! Bwhahaha!!

But yea, the world is doomed. :D

Wait until the kid asked his or her mother who the father is.

KID: Who's my daddy?
MOM: Well, I made a pact with my girlfriends to get pregnant, so I decided that the fastest way to do so was getting knocked up by a homeless man.
KID: #$%&$@^&

:cwink:
 
Not long ago 6 teenagers got pregnant by the same dude and they all thought it was cool :rolleyes:
 
Could you imagine the homeless guys over here if one of them actually had that happen?

"Boys, I swear on everything this chick is giving out ***** instead of money!"

*disheveled masses line up a la the soup kitchen*
 
Not long ago 6 teenagers got pregnant by the same dude and they all thought it was cool :rolleyes:

I wonder if that lucky dude have to pay child support?
 
Not long ago 6 teenagers got pregnant by the same dude and they all thought it was cool :rolleyes:

Girl you've gotta sleep with this guy, his boys can really swim! Check out my stretchy pants aren't they so cute!
 
i bet the girl who slept with the homeless guy was ugly, fat, and just wanted to be part of the crowd.
 

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