How stupid is this!!! http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/3076277/ Reports: Teen girls made pact to get pregnant GLOUCESTER, Mass. — A pact made by a group of teens to get pregnant and raise their babies together is at least partly behind a sudden spike in pregnancies at Gloucester High School, school officials said. Principal Joseph Sullivan told Time magazine in a story published Wednesday that the girls confessed to making the pact after the school began investigating a rise in pregnancies that has left 17 girls at the school carrying a child. Normally, there are about four pregnancies a year at the school. Sullivan told Time that nearly half of the expecting students, none over 16, were involved. Sullivan said students were coming to the school clinic multiple times to get pregnancy tests, and "seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were." Some of the girls reacted to the news they were pregnant with high fives and plans for baby showers, Sullivan said. One of the fathers "is a 24-year-old homeless guy," Sullivan told the magazine. Superintendent Christopher Farmer confirmed the deal to WBZ-TV, saying the girls had "an agreement to get pregnant." He said the girls are generally "girls who lack self-esteem and have a lack of love in their life." The first reports of the students' apparent plan to get pregnant were in the Gloucester Daily Times in March, when Sullivan said students were reporting that the girls were getting pregnant on purpose. The rash of pregnancies has shaken the seaside city about 30 miles north of Boston. Last month, two officials at the high school health center resigned to protest the resistance from the local hospital to the confidential distribution of contraceptives. The hospital administers the state money that funds the clinic.
I saw of quick clip of that story on GMA on my way out the door. Thats just terrible, I can't imagine thinking about doing that when I was in 9th grade.
Yep, heard about this as well on TV this AM. My dad had a pregnancy pact of his own, I guess...he would have killed us. End of story.
What are these stupid kids thinking AND again - WHERE'S THE PARENTS? Good job mom and dad - you're winners!:? they would have gone straight to the clinic - if they were mine.
First...there is a clinic at the school? And they didn't catch this sooner when the girls were coming in and they noticed the disappointment that they weren't pregnant? Did I read this correctly that all these girls are under 16? Holy crap! It sounds to me from the article that these are "at risk" girls and they don't have very concerned parents. I think it is sad that the school has to speak to this problem and not the parents. It shouldn't be the schools responsibility to speak to this, but it sounds like the parents are trying to push the responsibility of their children/young adults onto the teachers/administrators/nurses because they don't care.
heard this on the radio just a few ago. cant even believe it.....shaking head....sad! wth are they thinking?!
I think I heard that they are all freshmen, because on GMA I think they referred to it as "The Freshmen Pregnancy Pact".
Pregnant with a homeless guy's baby!? seriously? I wonder what the other fathers stories are with this pact. These girls need some professional mental help. I wonder how many will be given up for adoption once reality sets in or even if that's possible with this type of warped mentality. :?
Probably none. I bet most of their Moms had them at early ages, plus they would probably be on welfare letting the tax payers support them. The majority of young girls I have known in my lifetime that get prego, their mom's did the same thing.:?
Or how many of those girls will just pass them off to their parents, and their parents will raise them? You know those girls aren't even old enough to have part time jobs...they won't be able to afford to raise those babies, and what about healthcare after the babies are born?? Can those little momma's be on welfare at the ripe ol' age of 14 or 15??
I wonder when the homeless guy is going to jail for statutory rape of a minor. Obviously there is proof.
or maybe their parents should take them back to the local clinic for another reason. Ok, they (the 9th grade girls) have made a serious mistake – but please this is a baby – a life - that you are speaking of ending? Am I correct?
you spoiled my fun!!! meanie...lol What can i say...I don't believe in letting a "mistake"...never mind....besides.. the corruption of an innocent is a far greater sin
