The Pregnancy Pact
June 20, 2008 by Eliza Ferree
Filed under News & Media
Ya’ll know I like posting about the news and I’ve been dismissing this one all morning but I can’t any longer and while it doesn’t deal with babies or moms it does deal with it. What’s that mean? Well it deals with getting pregnant, so everything else comes after.
Okay in the news apparently a huge group of teens decided to make a pregnancy pact. Can you believe this?
There are 17 pregnant girls that go to Gloucester High School that all took a pregnancy pact with one another. When a local high school clinic realized the trend they began looking into it, especially when some seemed down about not being pregnant. This is where the story got interesting and the news picked it up.
The town is torn by what is really going on, some believe the girls made a pact. Others, like Mayor Carolyn Kirk, believes it just happened because the town’s been declining and their are no health classes.
What will happen to these 17 girls that are pregnant? Do they all have support? A future? You also have to look at who is the father? Does he want to be a part of his baby’s life? If he’s older will he be charged? There are many questions I’m sure the town will try to figure out in the next few months. Are these teens following recent movies and movie stars like, Juno or Jamie Lynn Spears?
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Don’t blame Juno or Jamie Lynn Spear. At least Juno was responsible enough to handle it and seek parents who wanted the child. As far a Jamie Lynn Spear at least she has her boyfriend who is standing by her side and her baby. Do these girls have any of this. Parents teach you children moral values. School need to give structure and supervision. Government needs to stop giving so much help like medicare, Wic, food stamps, welfare, daycare, etc to these girls. Keep them under the watch of their parents still or put them in group homes.
It was pretty jaw-dropping. I do post about teen pregnancies on womb within because I think there are a lot of health issues that aren’t thought about when it comes to teen pregnancies. Many teens don’t get the proper prenatal care because either they’re hiding their pregnancies or they can afford it (as well as other reasons). Their lifestyle choices aren’t always the best, more so than older women it’s been found and then, there’s the “are they ready for the responsibility”.
If a teen gets pregnant by accident and then decides to keep the child, that is a totally different situation than if a bunch of them make a pact to do so.
I hope that it all turns out well, but in this society, most teens, just aren’t ready for it.
Marijke
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Yolie-
Good call. It is the parent’s responsibility. I’ll be interested to see this show, Baby Borrowers. Supposed to address teen pregnancy. Hopefully it will show how really difficult parenthood is.
where are these girls parents!!! at their ages they shouldn’t be having sex. they should be thinking about school happenings and friends.
i know people will be pissed when they read this but think about it.
overweight girls are a easy target for boys and men. due to lower self esteem and they are easier to talk to in school. it’s harder talking to the popular girls. but it takes two to tango. it only takes one person with a std to spread it to the whole school. the school should teach a sex ed class. religion ha get over it. times have evolved.