How are parents of boys supposed to protect them from girls like this?
When you have a group of girls who vow to a pregnancy pact so they can all raise their babies together blah, blah, blah – just how the heck are parents of boys supposed to protect their son from falling into such a trap?
I can’t believe I find myself having these sort of talks with my boys so often, but with the news like this constantly making its way into my inbox, television and radio, I find it difficult to even think about avoiding such discussions.
I have stressed upon my boys that UNLESS they go TO the doctor WITH the girl and SEE the shot go INTO the arm – they are not to believe any other form of birth control will be working or effective.
Certainly the risk of STD’s scares me a bit, but the fear of some halfwit, controlling teenage girl with emotional issues attached to her vagina getting her claws into my son scares me 10 times worse.
I have to wonder what parents of girls are saying to try and avoid having their daughter fall into a trap with her friends where they think pregnancy pacts are cool.
As for the father’s of the babies who are being born into this pact, it’s obvious these girls had a plan to become pregnant and planned manipulations to get whatever being with a penis and sperm to contribute to the plot. I don’t think these boys/men should be held responsible for these children. Furthermore, I believe the babies born into this pact should be removed upon birth and adopted out to parents who would see them as more then some cool game they could play with their friends.
I posted this earlier on Babylune.com and I agree. While everyone is worried for these girls that fully intended to get pregnant no one is mentioning the boys. YES! The girls might be the ones pregnant but it WILL effect the boys no matter what. They’ll either have charges pressed, wonder if she’ll keep the baby, wonder if she won’t, wait to hear if he gets to be part of the baby’s life, etc. UGH.
When I first heard of the pregnancy pact, I thought the girls were forming a pact so that they wouldn’t get pregnant. When I found out the opposite was true I was horrified. These girls remind me of the wild teen girls on the Maury Povich Show who are trying to get pregnant.
There’s a birth control shot for the arm? When i got the shot it was in my…erm, posterier.
i completely agree though. i hate that the article didn’t mention the fathers except their ages.
Sick. Gross example of ignorance. I would have to be physically restrained when I saw my daughter.
I would bet by about 6 months along these girls are going to be realizing how stupid this whole thing was. Reality is going to come crashing down as they watch their friends go to prom, get cars, get jobs, their boyfriends move on to girls that look like girls and don’t have swollen cankles..it makes me sad for them and the baby and the fathers. Our kids have a very distorted sense of reality and that is ultimately OUR fault (as parents in society – not literally you and me).
I think noone is mentioning the boys because – they too should have known better than to have unprotected sex. They too should have been thinking “What if she gets pregnant? What if she has herpes?”
Lots of girls today, thanks to the wacko sex revolution of the sixties, feel that since men no longer have incentive to marry, they figure they will never find a boy to settle down with, so they have kids to experience motherhood, and sometimes feel they can “trap” the boyfriend who has moved onto another sexually available girl. This is modern culture at it’s worst, and I am tired of lying to teens and telling them that there are no gender differences in sex, and I am sick of educating them sexually in the same way. Back in the day, a boy went to a cheap prostitute. Now, they are having sex with airhead girl next door types, and we keep telling them this is good. The result-an explosion of crime and child abuse, juv. delingquency, fatherless homes, depressed and struggling femalse, 16 yr old boys paying child support for 20 yrs and going to jail for “rape,” and fatherless kids. Modern sexual morality does not work in this do anything that feels good freedom obsessed society. We are no better than our teens. Cant just blame parents though. Blame the media, the schools, and the fact that moms and dads are told it is wrong to “judge” the sexual behavior of their 15 yr old children. then mom and dad are forced to raise the young. Best thing boys can do is to simply abstain or wear a rubber despite whether or not girls say they are “protected.” If a boy is dumb enough to believe that, it is his problem.
Yes, a pregnancy pact is pretty dumb, but im a teen age boy. If I were to meet someone as stupid as this i’d simply use them and toss them. Mind you, all the while making sure they dont wind up pregnant… Does it look like I wanna pass on retarded gene’s to my children??
Oh and if your looking for a way to protect your son’s, theres always chasity belts?? xD