No! Not the White Girls!

[mrdankelly]

Teenage girls made pact to get pregnant! Is this the new rainbow party? Is Juno a gateway drug to harder and more addictive pregnancies? I'm sensing too that the girls are of pale-skinned hue. Dammit, white teenage girls are never supposed to get pregnant!It is my professional opinion that this story is deep-fried bullshit. Next thing you know, the

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[stmarc]

Ironically, *I* have no trouble at all believing this is at least partially accurate. Don't you listen to those heart-tugging stories on NPR about how teenage girls think about getting pregnant "so they will have somebody to love me

[vee_ecks]

"It is my professional opinion that this story is deep-fried bullshit."

Yeah, I've been holding off on having any opinion for similar reasons.

[txtriffidranch]

The only reason why I don't think it's utter bullshit is because my brother Eric's first wife had exactly that same attitude. Thankfully, my parents were able to step in and take care of my niece when my dear ex-sister-in-law discovered that the baby "that will love me unconditionally" wasn't just a doll she could put in the closet and ignore after a couple of weeks. It wasn't just her, either: one of the reasons why I left Wisconsin was because I simply couldn't believe the number of girls out there that figured that all of their problems could be solved just by getting pregnant

[virtualdan]

In quite a few years of working with disadvantaged and marginalised young people - and for the absoloute thousands i worked with in that time - i only ever recall one or two considering the idea of getting pregnant for the cash. At the time our Federal Government was providing one off cash payments of $3000 for new parents. These were 13 and 14 year olds prattling on about how they'd used the money to buy PS2 and a plasma screen.

So..i agree with you; deep fried bullshit it is. twice crumbed!

[gargamehl]

The bullshit is the idea that the girls made a pact to get pregnant. Maybe they did want to get pregnant, but making a pact seems like some insidious plot.

So your observation is right on.