Disturbing!
Teenage Girls may have made pact to get pregnant:
The girls showed up repeatedly at the high school health clinic, asking for pregnancy tests. But their reactions to the test results were puzzling: high-fives if they were expecting, long faces if they weren’t.School officials in this hard-luck New England fishing town say an alarming 17 girls — four times the usual number — became pregnant this year. And even more disturbing: Some of the girls may have made a pact to have babies and raise them together. via
One conclusion as to why these young women would make such a pact is the glamorization of pregnant celebrities in the entertainment media. “Baby bumps” are treated like a great purse or clutch, an awesome accessory every cool person must have. While this is probably not the only reason these girls decided to get pregnant–if they did–it shows we’re still not on target with discussing the long term circumstances of unprotected sex and teenage pregnancy. Jaime Lynn Spears anyone?
So much for the Bush plan of “just teach them abstinence and all will be fine.” I agree, the media can’t wait to glamorize the latest celebrity who gets pregnant. Well, I hope these 17 babies will grow up in a better world than the one we have now.
Comment by PeaceOut — June 22, 2008 @ 2:05 pm
Now the mayor of the town is saying the principal misspoke and it’s not true. It IS true that they have too many teen pregnancies, and part of the reason for that she said is No Child Left Behind. All the emphasis is on passing math and english tests, with no funding, so they have had to cut back on sex ed. The school doctor tried to hand out birth control and was told to stop. Maybe they should change it to “No Child Left Unpregnant”
Comment by PeaceOut — June 25, 2008 @ 3:26 pm