High school girls make pregnancy pact

your just plain ignorant!!

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this is sad...

and i really don't know what the economy has to do with it.....

as for movies like JUNO and Jamie Lynn Spears,,,people should raise their own kids and stop looking at teenagers in entertainment as role models when they are just teenagers themselves....

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Too many teenagers today, see people like Jamie Lynn Spears, her sister Brittney, as well as celebrity's that are certainly NOT teenagers such as Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry get pregnant without the benefit of marriage and think "that's cool". They don't seem to understand that These rich celebrities, have nanny's, babysitters, and such to care for their children while some of those celebrities go out and get pregnant again, and again and again.
To glorify being pregnant in such a way is the saddest thing. These young teenagers think this is a joke, and never stop to think that this is "LIFE", not a toy. I think the schools are doing a disservice to society to condone teen pregnancy in such a way as to provide day-care. Are they kidding? These girls will grow up free loaders for sure, you can almost see the future for them right now. Trailor park trash, having one baby after another and expecting society to "take care of it all".
No one seems to address the fact that these girls probably didn't even have steady boyfriends, that they "THOUGHT" they were in love with, and just saw the sperm as the "baby maker". What responsibilty do these boys have? Where are the morals of those 34 teenagers? Where are the 68 parents of those kids? What are they doing? Certainly not teaching their children morals, that's for sure. The responibily lies with 102 people who feel for one reason or another, that a lack of "love" in their lives can change when a baby is born. Get with the programs, schools of America and stop teaching irresponsibly behaviour by allowing day care in the schools and teach birth control. Get with the program parents of these teenagers and start paying attention to them, and find out what makes them tick, what makes a child seek such a thing to make themselves feel better. You are all responsible one way or another for those students and the sooner, we start getting tougher on our kids, the way our parents were "way back when" the sooner the next generation will understand that parenting is a "JOB", not fun and games.

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THESE GIRLS NEEDED A PUPPY NOT A BABY, SCHOOLS MAKE IT TO CONVENT FOR PREGNANT TEENS!!! MY DAUGHTERS FRIEND GOT PG AND REALLY THOUGHT IT WAS COOL UNTIL HER FREEDOMS WERENT SO FREE ANY MORE AND GAVE UP RIGHTS TO THE CHILD SO SHE COULD GET ON WITH HERS!! THAT CHILD IS GOING TO BE ANOTHER ANGERY CHILD WHEN SHE GROWS UP BECAUSE SHE WAS GIVEN UP AT AGE 2!!

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This is such a sad situation! I also wonder about the mental abilities of the staff at the school, not to mention the parents of the girls invovled, not to have figured out something was up before they had almost 20 girls preggers. It is one thing to support the pregnant girls but yet another to more or less say go to it we don't care. I do wonder how many of the girls will give birth to children that have the same father.........

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These girls must of been from broken homes where that monumental failure breeds additional failure after additional failure. If you look at their families you'd probably find that the boys are getting in trouble with the law and the girls, well, teen moms.

Taking care of your family is ones greatest responsibility. It doesn't take a village to raise your kids, it takes 2 parents who love each other as much as they do their children. That's a healthy family.

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As a grandmother I am really upset by this story. Where on earth were the parents that they did not do better by their kids? I don't accept that the kids are looking for someone to love...that is BS pure and simple. I made dang sure that all 4 of my kids had education on sex, birth control and personal control at early age. They did not think it cute, precious or any of that garbage to have a child while still children themselves. I also let them know that if something happened and they found themselves in that mess, they were on their own, no financial support from me. I told the girls that they would end up in a home and the boys that they would end up getting a job to pay the girls expenses. Society has become to accepting of sex at early age, all the bastard kids being born, etc. Simply put, it is not right and should not be thought that it is. Granted the kids see the airheaded stars having their babies, having supposedly met the fathers in Church.......now that is a laugh...and the grandparents that think it is great and wonderful. Has the world gone mad? I also think that after age 14 if a kid wants info on birthcontrol they should be given it.

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A minor may give birth to a child, but she may not have custody of it. I presume that the parents of these girls have stepped forward to assume custody. That's an enormous hardship if the area is as economically depressed as the article states. Rather than including the girls in the general school population and providing day care, if the girls were all put in one school, segregated from the general population until after the babies are born, and day care provided at another facility it would not appear so rosey. Is the day care provided out of the funds earmarked for education? If so, that is absolutely outrageous. It should not be free under any circumstances. The girls should be required to contribute as should the parents of the males or the males themselves if they are not minors.

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I know what it is like to want a baby. I am in my 30's and still don't have any children. These girls should have thought of the consiquences to their actions BEFORE getting pregnant, but the guys NEED to take responsibility for their actions as well. It takes two to get pregnant and the girls didn't do it alone. The guys need to step up to the plate and take care of their babies. They don't need to learn to be deadbeat dads at this age or they will always be deadbeat dads. Taking care of children is HARD work and the children should have a chance to know their dads.

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There is no reason why these girls should be trying to get themselves pregnant! They could be getting STDs along with a child that could possibly be born with said STDs. They aren't thinking. Im an 18 year old girl and I would NEVER even consider that! Their lives are ruined!

This whole deal with Jamie Lynn Spears isn't making anything better! Everyone is simply congratulating her! Well, congratulations, Jamie Lynn, for ruining your future!

Babies are expensive and I think its inapropriate for the school to have an on-site day care center. Thats just telling the girls, "Don't worry about it! You can go get yourself knocked up, and we will care for your baby!"

It's irresponsible and immoral.

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IM A TEENAGE MOTHER BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HAVING A KID DIDN'T STOP ME FROM DOING WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE I'VE BEEN HAVING A JOB SINCE SHE WAS 4 MONTHS OLD N I JUST GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL. HALF OF THE GIRLS WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO IT WITHOUT THE SCHOOL WE WENT TO BUT THEY GAVE USE A CHANGE TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT AND GET OUR EDUCATION AND FOR THAT I THANK THEM. NOT EVERYONE IS THE SAME AND DROP OUT OF SCHOOL OR THE CHILD GETS TAKEN AWAY. WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES AND YOU JUST LEARN FROM THEM. MY MOTHER ONLY WATCHES HER WHEN IM AT WORK SHE GOES WITH ME EVERYWHERE AND I BUY THE THINGS SHE NEEDS BUT THIS IS BETTER THAN HAVING AN ABORTION OR GIVING HER UP FOR ADOPTION. JUST BECAUSE WE'RE YOUNG DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE STUPID. THOSE GIRLS WEREN'T THINKING WHEN THEY PLANNED IT BECAUSE IT IS HARD WORK AND REALLY STRESSFUL BUT IF YOUR STRONG ENOUGH YOU'LL GET THREW IT. AND I WISH THEM BEST OF LUCK.


* *MY DAUGHTER DIDN'T BREAK ME SHE JUST MADE ME STRONGER AND IM GLAD THAT I HAVE HER IN MY LIFE* *

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I was graduated from high school in 1961. Back then a girl was labeled as "tramp" if she did more than kiss the boy goodnight at the end of a date. Sex? that was part of marriage. That was what we all looked forward to after college, finding our true love and getting married. We knew that no man wanted a used book, so to speak.

You see we were all looking forward to our wedding day and the RIGHT to wear white on that day. If you weren't "pure" white was not an option. Too bad that thinking changed. We have too many single moms, too much disease, too many kids growing up without the guidance of a father.

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I think these girls are the result of weak upbringing, they don't know anything about the real world because they have been protected fom it their whole life. If they hadn't been so sheltered they would know how hard this is going to be.

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I am defiantly not saying having a child at a young age will ruin your life, because I do believe a child is a blessing at any age. And if I had gotten myself into that situation I would never have even considered an abortion, because I think that is the most irresponsible selfish thing you could do. but this is different. these girls didn't sleep with their boyfriends and accidentally get pregnant. they planned it, they planned to have a baby at 13 or 14. I am not judging them or any other women who gets pregnant at a young age. Personally I respect any women who is selfless enough to keep her child in that situation. But I don't think these girls understand the struggle they just planned for themselves. Not one women who had a baby at a young age can tell me it was easy.

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I'm hardly religious but I will pray for these children. That is tragic, a fourteen year old girl thinks having a baby is like having a baby doll. There is no way they have the capacity or wisdom to realize what they were doing, if they did, it wouldn't be happening. They're going to wake up and realize, "I'm fourteen years old, I use to be able to do whatever I want," and I'm sure a month will go by with the baby, and they will dump the babies on their own mothers and continue to do whatever they want. Making the decision to bring a child into the world doesn't need to be planned necessarily but if you do ultimately decide to, especially make a pact to (sounds childish in its self) you damn well better do the best you can to raise them. These children will be damaged by the toxic environment they were raised in.

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these crazy chicas need some The Baby Borrowers in their life. if you're a parent with teen daughters, make sure they watch lots of NBC, lol.

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My parents got pregnant with me in 1988, when they were 16 and 17. They still say to this day that the reason they wanted me was because they were seeking unconditional love from something. Both of my parents came from troubled homes and in their naivety thought that having a child and starting their own family would make up for it. As a child of teen parents I have learned several things.

1) Parents have to raise hell before their child becomes pregnant, before they even have sex. My parent's parents paid no attention to what was going on and even though some may say that at 16 and 17 it's not a parent's job to monitor their children, I believe that they are wrong. My parents, although divorced, still go by the "my house, my rules" idea and because of their teen pregnancy have been much more tough on me when it comes to sex. I had the sex talk with my mom at 14, and when I became sexually active we had it again. Both of my parents were supportive, albeit disappointed, and offered birth control pills and condoms to me. They paid attention to my emotional needs and had frank talks with me about the burdens a young couple faces when they have a child.

2) A child growing up in a household with teen parents will often question whether or not they were wanted, regardless of what their parents say. Once I grew up and saw people in my school becoming pregnant, I began to wonder if I was an accident. In my eyes, my parents were forced to get married, like everyone else I went to school with. In school, everyone was constantly spreading the idea that babies born when the parents are teens are accidents. This idea, although it is true that most teen pregnancies are unplanned, sends a mixed message to a child who always believed that they were wanted. This is a hardship that a child of a teen parent may face and can cause problems between the parent and child relationship.

3) To those who believe that there is no stigma attached to getting pregnant and having children in your teens, you may not be paying close enough attention. In high school, it's hard not to notice when one of your classmates starts developing a baby bump. To this day, people stare and snicker. If they're not staring, they're asking when the girl is due and if it's a boy or a girl. I do agree that by taking such lengths to help these girls, the school may have been promoting the idea that it is an enviable thing to have a child in your teens. But the reality is that even with the school's help, these parents are in for a rough road ahead of them (even if their parents do help them out). For my mother, the school was no help to her. She went to school until she could and then completed night school with my father. Both of my parents never went to college (until recently) and both experienced the hardship of raising a family of four (my brother came 11 months after me) on minimum wage. To me, this is the reality that teen parents should be facing and would be facing if they weren't receiving the "this is ok, it's all ok" message. However, even if the school does help them to complete their high school education, without a college one they are looking at the same fate as my parents. As for the grandparents helping out, at first they thrust my parents out on their own and my parents did live alone (with the kids of course) for the first year of their marriage. It was only when they were absolutely broke from the hospital bills that accrued that my grandmother allowed them to live with her (I was an extremely sick baby). And yes, maybe it made it easier for them to have my grandmother's help, but could everyone say for absolutely sure that when your kids and grandkids are about to be thrown out of their home you wouldn't take them in? My grandmother wasn't my mom's babysitter either, she told my mom that she'd help us out but it was her job to watch and take care of us. I learned from watching my parents that no matter who helps you out, having a baby when you're a teen is still hard.

4) As a teen and former high school student, I would have been glad if my high school made birth control pills and condoms available to me. Why? Because it's my decision. I do believe that parents should be informed that the school is considering making it available and the school should not make that decision on their own, but if it does become available it's the student's decision on whether or not to use it. My parents never forced me to use birth control, but did offer it and I've never been pregnant! Yes, it's a parent's job to pay attention to their kids and to have conversations with them about sex and pregnancy, but ultimately they're not going to decide when the time to have sex is right for their kid. So why should they be the ones to decide whether or not that child gets birth control. Let's face it, people my age and younger are going to be having sex and if anyone thinks that telling them they're not allowed is going to stop them, you're wrong. It's about choosing the lesser of two evils, would you rather have a pregnant teen on your hands or a teen taking birth control. I know most parents would rather neither, but high school kids are rebellious and if they set their mind to something they'll find a way to get away with it. I'm not saying it's right or ok, I'm just speaking from experience. For personal reasons, I do not use birth control pills. To me, using drugs to mess with your hormones is unhealthy and unsafe. I am a user of other contraceptive methods though, namely condoms and spermicide. However, I understand the possible consequences of my actions. It has always been my firm belief that if you're not old enough to accept the possible consequences of having sex, you're not old enough to even be having sex.

With all that said, these girls need a wake up call, and when that screaming baby rips it's head out, they should get it. It's obvious that sex education at the school in this article is too lax and too focused on helping out girls who are pregnant, than helping to prevent the pregnancy in the first place. At my high school babies were considered an embarrassing thing to have as a teen and we even had discussions in sex ed. about how having a baby will not fulfill your want of unconditional love. My suggestion is that the school and the parents come together and have a rational and realistic discussion about sex education. If it pisses some people off, so what? You can't please everyone, but maybe you can keep some teens from having babies.

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It is good business for these young girls to get pregnant at 15. They will be paid to stay in school. and our tax dollars will also pay ALL their medical bills, pay for all the baby medical bills and hospital bills, pay the child ADC for 18 years, pay the mother welfare and give her section 8 housing.

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