I’m sure most people have heard by now of the 17 pregnant girls at Gloucester High School. Yes, that’s 17 soon-to- be-moms all under age 17! Many of the expectant teenage moms confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. One girl even fessed up that the father of her unborn child is a 24-year-old homeless guy! A homeless guy! Whatever happen to the days when teens avoided getting knocked up? Why are children purposefully having children?
School Superintendent Christopher Farmer told CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller the teens feel, “Motherhood gives them status.”
“It sort of gives you the impression of being an adult, an independent. It may give you an opportunity for unconditional love and attention from the baby and also that you give to the baby,” Dr. Elisabeth Guthrie, a pediatric psychiatrist, observed to Miller. [CBS News]
Of course there are those folks who argue that it’s the fault of the media for “glamourizing” pregnancy.
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