I haven't seen Juno or Knocked Up, so I don't know whether or not it's true that pregnancy for young unwed mothers is being glamorized. I do know that when I was in High School 42,000 years ago, teens who got pregnant mysteriously disappeared from town before any visual clues of their condition became obvious (where they went, I have no idea - they were just gone). Pregnancy wasn't something a young girl willingly brought on herself.
Apparently, the times are a changin'.
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As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies. That's 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 glamorizing young unwed mothers.
But principal Joseph Sullivan knows at least part of the reason there's been such a spike in teen pregnancies in this Massachusetts fishing town. School officials started looking into the matter as early as October after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant. By May, several students had returned multiple times to get pregnancy tests, and on hearing the results, "some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Sullivan says. All it took was a few simple questions before nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together.
Then the story got worse. "We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy," the principal says, shaking his head.
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But principal Joseph Sullivan knows at least part of the reason there's been such a spike in teen pregnancies in this Massachusetts fishing town. School officials started looking into the matter as early as October after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant. By May, several students had returned multiple times to get pregnancy tests, and on hearing the results, "some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Sullivan says. All it took was a few simple questions before nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together.
Then the story got worse. "We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy," the principal says, shaking his head.
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I weep for the future. Unmarried teens intentionally impreganting themselves? So dumb. They should at least go find some nice polygamist family to marry into that will help them bring their kids up. Am I right? Am I?
I blame Barbie.
Oh, and the entire Spears family.
I predict that stories like this one from Wisconsin will become more and more common in places like Gloucester, Massachusetts in the coming years.
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A pregnant teen from Sheboygan has been charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly throwing a waffle iron at the father of her unborn child, hitting him in the head. Stephanie C. Fennessy, 17, of 1007-A Georgia Ave., faces up to 90 days in jail if convicted of the misdemeanor offense, filed Monday.
According to a criminal complaint:
Fennessy was at her apartment with the 19-year-old Milwaukee man and her two sisters when one of the sisters cracked a joke. The man, Dominique D. Riggins, told police Fennessy became upset, thinking everyone was laughing at her. She stormed into a bathroom and broke a shelf.
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According to a criminal complaint:
Fennessy was at her apartment with the 19-year-old Milwaukee man and her two sisters when one of the sisters cracked a joke. The man, Dominique D. Riggins, told police Fennessy became upset, thinking everyone was laughing at her. She stormed into a bathroom and broke a shelf.
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To hell in a hand basket, I tells ya!
