Within a day of 17-year-old Zoey 101 star Jamie Lynn Spears giving birth to a baby girl, Maddie Briann, Time Magazine reports that a high school in Gloucester, Massachusetts, has discovered a teen girl pregnancy pact among its students. At last count, 17 teenage girls in this 1,200 student high school have been found to be pregnant, 4 times the number of pregnancies as last year. The school nurse became suspicious when her office was inundated with a steady stream of requests for a pregnancy test throughout the school year. Further investigation into the matter revealed that these teen girls had made a pregnancy pact and vowed to raise their babies together.
Is Hollywood to blame for this pregnancy pact?
Is Hollywood glamorizing teen pregnancy? Some would say yes. After all, the pregnancy of teen idol Jamie Lynn Spears has been all over the television and print media. Movies such as Juno, depicting a pregnant teenage girl, also feed into glamorizing teen pregnancy……………
However, these 17 girls in the pregnancy pact do not have millions of dollars to raise their babies. One pregnant mother confessed that the father of her baby is a 24 year old homeless man. Many of these newly pregnant teen moms reacted to the news with great joy and, according to Principal Joseph Sullivan, were disappointed at a negative pregnancy test. Some of these girls returned to the school clinic multiple times for pregnancy tests.
Or is the economy of Gloucester to blame for the pregnancy pact?
Still others blame the pregnancy pact that these teenage girls entered into on the economy of the area. Gloucester, Massachusetts, population 30,000.
The Massachusetts pregnancy pact was a result of the school being in a highly Catholic community. Catholicism is constantly encouraging for people to have babies (in huge numbers too) and are always damning birth control…yet if a teen in a Catholic school does get pregnant, they usually get kicked out of that school for it. How messed up is that?
Point being: you cant blame the media anymore for teen pregnancies than people are already blaming the media for school shootings. The environment they're in plays a stronger factor than what they watch on tv.
This crap makes me sick!! My tax dollars are goin' to support these sluts… You know, I really want to find out if they were the product of single, young mothers…. Most girls WOULD be scared to be 17, single and pregnant…. Unless they already know how to milk all the resources out there… i.e. medicaid, food stamps, WIC, section 8 housing, welfare, and, uh, stealing their baby daddy's identity AND hittin' him up for child support (like my man's ex did..) When I was those girls' age, I would've been scared $hitless because I had no idea these resources existed. I betcha their mom's were sluts to…. The apple don't fall far from the tree, y'know??
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Yes, for a couple of months, if you noticed your magazines, you will see pictures of celebrities pregenant / with babies in very cute pictures. We have brought up ourselves to believe these celebrities and imitate what they do. Personally, i do not see much of a problem of what they did. they were just following what their celebrities did. Why aren't we angry when they teenagers talk strange, act strange, drink, smoke or dress immodestly, become anorexic etc but since they are pregenant their is an uproar? what did you expect from hollywood? respectful, sane and happy teenagers? Remember Garbage in Garbage out. Maybe we should tell our magazines to print out some horrible stories about teen pregenacies to solve this problem or make a stupid movie or tv series.
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The Massachusetts pregnancy pact was a result of the school being in a highly Catholic community. Catholicism is constantly encouraging for people to have babies (in huge numbers too) and are always damning birth control…yet if a teen in a Catholic school does get pregnant, they usually get kicked out of that school for it. How messed up is that?
Point being: you cant blame the media anymore for teen pregnancies than people are already blaming the media for school shootings. The environment they're in plays a stronger factor than what they watch on tv.
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