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

[DACrowe]

I heard about this on the news yesterday. ****ing ridiculous. A pregnancy pact? Really? I already see the media blaming Juno and Knocked Up. I suppose people didn't actually watch those movies as Juno knows she is "ill-equipped" to raise a child and gives it up to adoption without hesitation and Knocked Up was about a mid-20s successful career woman (and Waitress is just a bad example, period).

This is just sad. I think it does say something about the culture in this country that teenagers are feeling so isolated and alone (from high school, bad parenting, etc.) that they feel the only way they'll ever be loved is to violate their bodies and give up their futures to be teenage mothers who likely will spend the rest of their lives struggling. The love they seek should be coming from their parents...or at least a pet (don't they have dogs or cats?). Seriously, this is a sad note about the teenage experience of recent times. But if they think being BFFs they can raise these kids together...well God help them. Really.

 

[hammy]

@ Pyrochamber. Why? Are any of the girls even black? I haven't seen any of their stats. Why are you asking that?

 

[Logan's Runt]

@ Pyrochamber. Why? Are any of the girls even black? I haven't seen any of their stats. Why are you asking that?

I don't understand either. Why just wonder if one father was black? Do black men inspire young girls to want to have babies? What are you speculating?

 

[jaguarr]

Not to bring race into this, but I wonder if one of the fathers is black?

Hahaha! That's exactly what you just did, dude....brought race into it. Saying that's not what you're doing while you are actually doing that doesn't make it okay.

jag

 

[kainedamo]

lol... I'm as confused as everyone else.

 

[terry78]

Because we like to get white girls pregnant. Where you been?

 

[Poetic Chaos]

One of the girls and her baby-daddy spoke to Good Morning America. They seem like good kids (at least these two).

http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=65249d63-a7db-490a-b6cf-0aa13e1790ee

 

[amazingfantasy15]

One of the girls and her baby-daddy spoke to Good Morning America. They seem like good kids (at least these two).

http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=65249d63-a7db-490a-b6cf-0aa13e1790ee

I want to hear from the girl that got knocked up by the homeless guy, what was her story. Also, damn do they have thick accents!

 

[Gilpesh]

Also, damn do they have thick accents!

Um... they are underage parents that think they should keep the kid and can raise it by themselves.

Of course they do.

 

[WompuM]

I totally forgot I made this thread.

 

[JOHN DOE]

I heard about this on the news yesterday. ****ing ridiculous. A pregnancy pact? Really? I already see the media blaming Juno and Knocked Up. I suppose people didn't actually watch those movies as Juno knows she is "ill-equipped" to raise a child and gives it up to adoption without hesitation and Knocked Up was about a mid-20s successful career woman (and Waitress is just a bad example, period).

This is just sad. I think it does say something about the culture in this country that teenagers are feeling so isolated and alone (from high school, bad parenting, etc.) that they feel the only way they'll ever be loved is to violate their bodies and give up their futures to be teenage mothers who likely will spend the rest of their lives struggling. The love they seek should be coming from their parents...or at least a pet (don't they have dogs or cats?). Seriously, this is a sad note about the teenage experience of recent times. But if they think being BFFs they can raise these kids together...well God help them. Really.

Or they are feeling over stimulated from all the sexual images they get bombarded with daily. Bad parenting isn't always the case. Kids still make choices even after being told the right way.

 

[The Senator]

Why do people care about this?

 

[DACrowe]

Or they are feeling over stimulated from all the sexual images they get bombarded with daily. Bad parenting isn't always the case. Kids still make choices even after being told the right way.

While I think the media images are a problem to adolescents growing up, I hate the excuse of "blame television, movies, music, games, etc." It is complacent and a representation of people's ability to not take responsibility. While parenting is not the only thing in these children's lives, it is one of the largest parts of it. Kids who are making pacts to get pregnant together because they want "unconditional love" are naive and should know better as this isn't about sex (or Juno for that matter). To the hypodermic needle theory I always like to quote a line from Scream, "Movies don't make killers, movies make killers more creative."

Teen promiscuity is there, has always been there and will continue to be so. Teach these kids safe sex and just take responsibility for how they turn out.

Anyway, I didn't watch all of the video, but they seem nice enough. But since others have admitted to agreeing to this and one girl who goes to that high school and has a child said she was asked by a number of girls about "how cool is it to have a baby," I'm gonna' take her disavowing the pact with a grain of salt.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

Or they are feeling over stimulated from all the sexual images they get bombarded with daily. Bad parenting isn't always the case. Kids still make choices even after being told the right way.

yeah, I remember this one time I was walking home from High School and they had the New Rolling Stone magazine with Cindy Crawford on the cover

and then, no fault of mine, I was raping a girl.

it was a weird day