I Fear for the Republic
just before lunchtime on Friday, the 20th of June 2008 by Chad
When I read about how pathetic some people are.
A pact made by a group of teens to get pregnant and raise their babies together is at least partly behind a sudden spike in pregnancies at Gloucester High School, school officials said.
Principal Joseph Sullivan told Time magazine in a story published Wednesday that the girls 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 about four pregnancies a year at the school.
Sullivan told Time that nearly half of the expecting students, none over 16, were involved. Sullivan said students were coming to the school clinic multiple times to get pregnancy tests, 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 “is a 24-year-old homeless guy,” Sullivan told the magazine.
Something is just so damn wrong when you read stories like this. But remember, these are life choices people are making, and these children have been taught from a young age that what the feel like doing is more important than making the so called “right” choice.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 9:33 am
these children have been taught from a young age that what the feel like doing is more important than making the so called “right” choice.
Of course once they got pregnant the “right” choice was having the babies. Still, I’m all for a serious bitch-slapping of their parents all the while screaming “WTF are you teaching your kids you f***ing morons?”