Fast Times for Teen Pregnancy
When it comes to teen pregnancy there are mistakes made by smart teens, accidents that happen because, well, accidents happen, and then there are girls who want to get pregnant.
The news this week is out of Gloucester, Massachusets where there are 17 expecting teen girls, all of them 16 and under. Half of them confessed to the principal that they had made a pregnancy pact and were going to raise the babies together.
The Times has pulled up many reasons for this “pregnancy problem”. Apparently, because of economy issues families are broken, teens are growing up with direction, and there are other teens raising children. In fact, there is a 3% rise in teen pregnancy since 2006.
My question is, who is going to raise these babies when these teens realize they want to get out of a decrepit town, when they realize that parenthood is not for them, when they realize the attention is all gone?
Will their parents raise that child? Will the child got to foster care, be relinquished for adoption?
Read More:
Babylune
ABC News
: Psychology of a Pregnancy Pact
Today
MTV
What we cannot do is gloss this over, sugar coat or in any way, detract from the fact that these teens did exactly what they wanted to do. They are about to enter the adult world so now would be a good time to start using adult terms for what they did. For instance,irresponsible,illogical stupid dumb ill advised. Words that should make them feel bad. Every adult has to deal with the reality that in some instances a harsh word like stupid and dumb are the greatest deterents to behaving in a stupid and or dumb manner. Did you ever think that these kids would have a better social consciences if say the President, a pro athlete, and a pop star all showed up at that school and had an assembly of all of the kids and they all stood up and said that what these teens did was the most stupid thing that they had ever heard of? These teens have made a colossal scerw-up of their lives, their parents lives, and their communities lives. Quit coddling these fools and quite possibly the teens who follow won’t be so foolish.
Well said.
Anyone heard of this Baby Borrowers show on NBC? Looks like it tackles the issues of teen pregnancy. Would love to hear other thoughts on this.