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All of them succeeded.
None of them are older than 16.
Gloucester Teens Had Pact To Get Pregnant
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (WBZ) ― There's a stunning twist to the sudden rise in teen pregnancies at Gloucester High School. Seventeen students there are expecting and many of them became that way on purpose.
Time Magazine first reported that nearly half of the girls confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. None of them is older than 16.
Schools Superintendent Christopher Farmer told WBZ's Bill Shields Thursday the girls had "an agreement to get pregnant."
Farmer said these are generally "girls who lack self-esteem and have a lack of love in their life."
"The common threat is the lack of self-esteem and purpose in life, and a lack of a sense of direction," said Farmer. "Young women wanting and needing affection."
Principal Joseph Sullivan has not returned calls from WBZ for comment.
Sullivan told the magazine that the pact wasn't the only shocking incident.
"We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy," he told Time.
Last month, two top officials at the high school's health center resigned in a fight over contraceptives distribution.
Medical Director Dr. Brian Orr and chief nurse practitioner Kim Daly support confidentially giving contraceptives to students. They were outraged about resistance from Addison Gilbert Hospital, which administers the state public health grant that funds the school clinic.
Normally, the school has about four pregnancies per school year.
According to Time, school officials started looking into the spike in pregnancies after an unusual number of girls came to the school clinic for pregnancy tests. Some came by several times.
"Some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Sullivan told the magazine.
The pregnant girls and their parents turned down requests to be interviewed.
A recent graduate who had a baby during her freshman year told Time she knows why the girls wanted to get pregnant.
"They're so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally," Amanda Ireland, 18, said. "I try to explain it's hard to feel loved when an infant is screaming to be fed at 3 a.m."
Ireland also spoke with WBZ about her young pregnancy.
"I don't call it a mistake because the way I look at is everything happens for a reason," Ireland said. "But, no, she was not planned."
WBZ has also tried to contact Mayor Carolyn Kirk and Public Health Director Jack Vondras. Both are said to be out of town this week.
Beyond the social implications of the pregnancies, there are some legal questions being asked, including whether the men who fathered the babies will face charges of statutory rape.
Source: http://wbztv.com/local/gloucester.high.school.2.751873.html
The whole being 'knocked up by homeless people' concerns me. As does the fact that these girls still have their whole lives ahead of them to jump right into parenthood.
Discuss.
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.....this is really sad......WTF @ the homeless guy gettin sum
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This is a reminder of how the social well being of an individual is dramatically affected by love, affection, feeling of belonging amoungst other things. Albeit another question that is raise would be, seeing as these 'feeling unloved' young girls chose to GIVE LIFE as opposed to TAKE LIFE... is this better or worse?
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The whole developed world situation with parents neglecting children to work is at fault here... Single parent homes and the like.
Girls need a male role model in the home as well...
going to convent i see the whole craving love thing alot , on more than one occasion a girl told me their life story to guilt me into a relationship... i'v heard more than one child abuse case as well.
Ways out of stress and loneliness for girls tend to spread rapidly , Cutting is a big thing in school in Trinidad , some statistic said as much as 15% of girls have mutilated themselves in the past.
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well it can also be a social welfare scam. having lived in the uk a bit you see that often, young uk women gettin knocked up for benifits. most of the times that means a housing flat and living expenses paid for by the jolly of gov't. plus they get paid for per child since the gov't sees children as an investment in future earnings. you always hear about some council house jail bait that cant stand their parents telling them to slow down, gettin pregnant so they can move out. only to shaft them with it and splurge with their welfare money. i dont know whats on these gilies minds but it certainly aint school work.