High school faces baby boom as girls make a pregnancy pact
A pact by a group of teenagers to get pregnant and raise their babies together is at least partly the reason for a sudden rise in pregnancies at a high school in Massachusetts. Gloucester High School Principal Joseph Sullivan told Time magazine in a story published this week that the girls had confessed to making the pact after the school began investigating a rise in pregnancies that has left 17 girls at the school carrying a child. Normally, there are four pregnancies a year at the school. Sullivan told Time nearly half of the expecting pupils, none older than 16, were involved. He said pupils were coming to the school clinic multiple times for pregnancy -*test*-('")s, and "seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were". Some of the girls reacted to the news they were pregnant with high-fives and plans for baby showers, Sullivan said. One of the fathers was "a 24-year-old homeless guy", Sullivan told the magazine. Superintendent Christopher Farmer confirmed the deal in a television interview, saying the girls had "an agreement to get pregnant". snip http://tinyurl.com/6a2ecw
A pact by a group of teenagers to get pregnant and raise their babies together is at least partly the reason for a sudden rise in pregnancies at a high school in Massachusetts. Gloucester High School Principal Joseph Sullivan told Time magazine in a story published this week that the girls had confessed to making the pact after the school began investigating a rise in pregnancies that has left 17 girls at the school carrying a child. Normally, there are four pregnancies a year at the school. Sullivan told Time nearly half of the expecting pupils, none older than 16, were involved. He said pupils were coming to the school clinic multiple times for pregnancy -*test*-('")s, and "seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were". Some of the girls reacted to the news they were pregnant with high-fives and plans for baby showers, Sullivan said. One of the fathers was "a 24-year-old homeless guy", Sullivan told the magazine. Superintendent Christopher Farmer confirmed the deal in a television interview, saying the girls had "an agreement to get pregnant". snip http://tinyurl.com/6a2ecw