Parents and adults in the Gloucester community blame broken families and movies like "Juno" and "Knocked Up," which target teenagers, for making them believe that pregnancies are the best thing that could happen to them
Are you kidding me? How can you put this blame on movies. Lets face it. Without proper parenting kids this age are going to do what they want to. The school district is completely embarrassed that 17 females in their school are "Knocked UP". Sometimes no matter how good of a parent you try to be or think you are your kids will do something like this. I do not believe this is a reflection of parents but the area they are around... After all, doesn't that high school have a DAY CARE?
Meanwhile, Mayor Carolyn Kirk, a member of the school committee, has placed some blame on the "hard economic time" the city is going through and stated that the existence of such a pact is "believable, in the sense that it would explain this spike" in teenage pregnancies, referring to the fact that the number of pregnancies were four times as high than last year.
Really? Then these kids know NOTHING about a child. To feed, clothe, diaper and the rest with in the first year is at least 10 grand or more. Not like their parents can afford to help them so i bet they will get on welfare and we will be supporting them. Not that welfare is bad, they should have given themselves a chance to do it right the first time
"It’s the social environment these girls are coming from," added Kirk. "They think that a baby can give them love or give them status or fill an empty space in their life, and these girls are very, very young. And I think if you talk to any teenage mother who is caring for an infant, the road is not easy."
Well when your social environment has a day care that is free and you can still continue your education it all seems pretty easy! I do not believe these kids are going to pay for what they did in anyway RIGHT NOW. They will pay later down the road when they have to worry about day care and so on. Yes, they are young. They are going to think this baby is the only one that can ever understand them and love them. Until 3am when the kid won't sleep and they are up all night getting puked on!!! THATS LOVE!
This trend has somewhat been glamorized in reports prior and on Thursday when Britney Spears's 17-year-old sister Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to a baby girl.
Yeah so that is true. I really do not think that this is glamorized. She is a celebrity and that is what happens. Look, she went from a tiny 16 year old to a pregnant woman over night. Where is the glamor in that? Kids live in a blurred vision tunnel. These girls wanted 15 minutes of fame. Now they are getting 18 years of guilt, heartache, love, mess, back talking, the works!
For these girls sake I hope they have wonderful pregnancies and that they go on the have healthy babies. Later down the road they will realize it was a mistake. I hope they do not take that out on their children but them selves and push to be the best they can be and not another statistic. These babies deserve a perfect life and the 17 girls need to strive for that.
