Pregnancy news alert!!

[lagizma]

As always, Madeleine is here to bring pregnancy conversation to the table:
As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies-more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year.

Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for

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[bart_calendar]

The only school in the world where it's the girls who are trying to talk the guys into not wearing condoms.

Also, how skanky must the girl who did the homeless guy have been. I mean, seriously, if you are a 15 year old girl looking for unprotected sex it's not that hard to find a boy your own age to do the deed, even if you look like Broom Hilda.

[infloresence]

Hey - he might have been a really attractive, well educated university dropout type homeless person. You never know. He could be the next Siddhartha Guatama. Although, impregnating teens doesn't seem very ascetic, that's for sure.

[somethinghead]

I have not yet seen Juno but if anyone left Knocked Up thinking that they just had to have a baby, they really missed the point.

Also, I think that abstinence-only education is a terrible idea, but trying to blame this event on abstinence-only education is obviously a bit specious.

These girls were deliberately attempting to get pregnant. It's not a matter of being uninformed sluts who didn't know how to avoid pregnancy, it was a group of girls that treated babies as bling and thought it'd make them cool.

[lagizma]

Specious for sure. I think I just hate gwb a lot this week and this made me want to get annoyed at him more. ;) I could argue that his lack of an open, scientifically-based dialog on the subject led to these pacts, but yeah, I just hate him and there's really no overt, direct connection.

[eh_notsomuch]

Don't know how much I like being described as being "on top" of a teen pregnancy item, but thank you!

I know teenagers are stupid. We were all stupid at that age. I was Queen of Stupid. But I don't understand the thought process here: there are no jobs in your area, your life sucks, so hey! Make a baby that you can't raise and therefore condemn yourself to living in your crappy little town with your parents for the rest of your life.

I could say 'no pun intended,' but alas, it was

[lagizma]

Can't someone loan them a baby for a day or a week? I would. I see babies from across the room and shudder in joy that I don't have one.

They can be absolutely adorable, but it has been my experience that doesn't last more than a twenty minutes, after which you want to hand it the hell back to a responsible party other than yourself.

We had those Sugar Baby experiments (or I read pre-teen novels about them). What's the next generation way to prove to girls how much having a baby crimps your style?

Re: I could say 'no pun intended,' but alas, it was

[galenamoon]

HEY.

ok, so I was only mildly offended. =) shudder in joy? LOL!

I already plan to purchase your kid rub-on tattoos and a drum set.

[lagizma]

Oh, it's true. Your baby even came up in therapy. I told Dr. Wittenberg that my cats were awesome and I loved coming home to them and they'd made the last year of my life very happy, which led into me declaring I was never having children. He was really taken aback, and questioned why I didn't think I'd have children. And I was like, dude, no, I'm not working on the fact that I don't want to have children. That's just a fact and I don't need therapy for it

[crystalstarr]

I heard it was "pregnancy packs" these little teen's were making, thinking it would be really cool to have babies. Wait tell they try to squeeze that watermelon out of their lemon hole.Wont be so cute then. This isn't even funny. When I was a teen , sure I loved sex too, but babies were disgusting to me and not something I looked forward to at that age. At 19 and married I still was terrified to have my daughter. Damn these are 14-15 year old's they are talking about. Seriously what is going on with these kids. I don't think its media only, sure movies glamorize it a bit, but it has to be parenting too.

[bart_calendar]

Also, why were the dudes not try to avoid becoming dads. When I was 15 I would do anything to get a girl to bring me to orgasm, but I'd still at lest pull out or try to get a blow job. I mean, I was dumb, but I wasn't insane.

[lagizma]

I watch my fair share of Dr. Phil, and for dudes, there is some kind of magical thinking I see them take on. If they don't think about it, it won't happen. If she doesn't ask for a condom, it means she's on the pill and you don't have to bring it up.

Girls do this too, of course, but in the case of the impregnaters of the pact makers, I think it was probably pretty easy to find guys clueless about the whole process of how babies are made.

[lagizma]

I still live in terror of pregnancy. I haven't moved a bit from my high school fear that I'd get pregnant and then my mom would know I was having sex.

I identified so much with the main character in Saved!, taking the pregnancy test. "Please let it be cancer, please let it be cancer, please let it be cancer." I know that feeling.

[infloresence]

Just when I thought teenage girls couldn't get any more stupid...