<p>Something pretty shocking is going on in a Gloucester, Massachusetts high school:</p>
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<p>[Pregnancy</a> Boom at Gloucester High - TIME](<a href=“http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1815845,00.html]Pregnancy”>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1815845,00.html)</p>
<p>It’s sad that this is the only future they can see for themselves.</p>
<p>This sad on so many levels. I pray it doesn’t catch on elsewhere.</p>
<p>Yeah. Saw that one yesterday. Some parents need to be lined up and shot, if at all possible with a single bullet so they don’t waste resources. It’s not all on the parents of course but geez…there had to be something going on that we aren’t privy too… I showed the article to my 20 y/o daughter, she shook her head and laughed. What else can you do?</p>
<p>The fallacy here is that they are not just committing themselves to raising their babies together, they are committing their families and the school to raising their babies as well. This was an incredibly selfish thing to do by unthinking teens.</p>
<p>Yeah. I wonder what was going through their minds (besides a breeze) when they decided this was going to happen. I’m sure it will all get blamed on a movie they saw or something they saw posted on a website somewhere. The better question is, as a parent, how would you handle this?</p>
<p>I saw something like this on Maury with 13 year old girls looking to get pregnant. Maury was able to scare them from having kids. Maybe he should do a show at this school.</p>
<p>“as a parent, how would you handle this?”</p>
<p>I think I’d give the child a choice between abortion, adoption, and moving out of the house. If she wants to be a grownup raising a child, fine, but grownups work and support themselves. If she wants to be a child and live at home on full support, then she has to allow the adults in the home to decide when it’s time for a new family member.</p>
<p>Where is the popcorn?</p>
<p>Hanna’s post is what my parents said to my sister 21 years ago. She chose to move out and raise her child. She gave up her dream of being a flight attendant (actually had an associates degree for it) and moved out. Life has never been easy for either of them, but I think she’s happy with her decision.</p>
<p>I shudder to just think of this, I really do. I don’t think my family could handle another baby. I would probably push adoption very hard and maybe even be secretly relieved if she chose an abortion. I’m personally pro-life, but my own hypocrisy might catch up with me if my sophomore got pregnant.</p>
<p>I admire your honesty, zoosermom.</p>
<p>I have to wonder if some of the kids watched the movie “Juno”, and actually think that the whole notion of pregnancy is a wonderful thing, as depicted in that film?</p>
<p>In the case of Juno, the baby was adopted, but I actually thought that the pregnancy itself was depicted as nothing more than an “inconvenience” and that, in this film, it was shown to strengthen some of the interpersonal relationships that the teenager was struggling with before the pregnancy.</p>
<p>I watched the film with my daughter, and we had a long discussion after it. :o</p>
<p>Ding, ding ding, we have a winner. I knew it was only a matter of time before a movie was brought up in relation to being a possible cause…</p>
<p>No offense intended. It was only a matter of time though. You could be right but it still shows an abhorrent lack of parenting.</p>
<p>Of course the State of Massachusetts and the US government will be committed to financially supporting these teens and their babies for 18 years,including full benefits for all the necessary items, including food, free health care, education (tuition grants), day care and housing. The fathers, whom they won’t reveal, have no responsibility, or the teen’s parents. There will be no consequences for fathers who are adults vis a vis impregnating underage women. (one of the fathers reportedly is 24 years old.)</p>
<p>SOPHMORE GIRLS MAKE PACT TO GET PREGNANT…
oh great! just when I thought I couldnt get any more cynical, something like this hits the news. Yes, its official, we are now living in the post-intellectual era.</p>
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If they’re found, there will be. The DA will prosecute for statutory rape.</p>
<p>I doubt that that will happen because these things are rarely prosecuted. Also I heard on TV that unless one of the young women presses charges, it will not be investigated.</p>
<p>However, there will be mucho freebies for all, thanks to us taxpayers and the encouragement of teenaged pregnancy via entitlements. Everything from free Day Care to free food. And the more babies the better.</p>
<p>Plus the mothers get free health care via Medicaid indefinitely. They will all need to be checked for STDs since they were having unprotected intercourse.</p>
<p>Babies are a business in the US now, and have been for about 40 years. I don’t know why people are so shocked, lots of teens have been doing this for generations.</p>
<p>I think the girls started conceiving last fall, before Juno was released.</p>
<p>If i were the parent, we would be marching to an abortion clinic.</p>