17 girls in one school in the us are pregnant after a pact...........................

[zippitippitoes]

................teachers finally realised

suggestion that the film Juno might be blamed

I would wonder whether the strong Catholic community would have something to do with it? The comments at the end of the article regarding the contraception are very interesting.

Can't remember who said it, but there was a woman MP who said, "The best form of contraception is ambition."

At my local secondary school 20% of the year eleven girls were pregnant or had a baby during the school year. That figure is scary especially when you consider that doesn't account for miscarriage or termination. I think it's a cultural/rural thing here. [/banjos duelling]

Crikey.
I think there was only one, possibly two girls that were pregnant before leaving school in my Upper School.

This is so sad that these girls are deluded thinking that having a baby will make their lives better. It happens here too, although not yet on such a scale. We just have mass suicide at the moment. I feel so sorry that so many young people get themselves into such positions.

Well, if theu have made a pct to bring them up together maybe it will be okay. They could set up a commune and bring their children up in a co-operative way then maybe they will have time ans space to grow

Dryad, love that quote about ambition.

It was deffo true when I was growing up. Those of us who wanted to go to Uni/get further training made damn sure we didn't get pregnant

what about the fathers? no mention of them or their contribution?

according to the BBC news a lot of the fathers are guys in their twenties who may face prosecutions

good - silly feckers

these girls are children and deserve protection and education from both their families and their schools

near where I live has the highest rate of teenage pg in britain and when we were at uni there it was said you could tell who was a local and who was a student by whether or not they were pushing a pram

things still don't seem to have changed in the 8yrs since I graduated

I read another article that said one of the father's was a 24 yr old homeless man. I think they were implying that the girls were getting pregnant to any guy who came along. So sad.
They are also saying that Jamie Lynn Spears is to blame, why do they have to blame films and celebrities, why not poor education and lack of ambition? Great quote Dryad.

Why exactly would Juno be to blame? Surely only people who had not seen the film would assume that to be true?

Judgenutmeg, very similar to the school I went to. When I visited a friend after I had finished my final A level exam I had to drive her to the hospital in labour, it was her 2nd DC. Her sister came to the hospital (2 years older and had 4 DCs) and told me to get a move on or it would be too late for me

Yes, Ambition. There were no teenage pregnancies at the girls grammar I went to.....! I now realise how unusual we were. Or naive! We just couldn't understand why anyone would WANT to get pregnant at 16? Or an ACCIDENT? With all those pills available? Come ON!

No, they won't form a co-operative commune and grow together in a happy, supportive environment. They're under-educated teenagers. They'll go on welfare and commence a lifetime of dodgy, transient relationships, poverty, more pregnancies, under-achievement and regret. Til their own firstborn DD comes home pregnant- at 14.

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Tesla there weren't any at mine either. I remember being quite shocked when a friend got pregnant (not settles down) at 19.
Oh I was naive. Though to be honest maybe naivity is a better way to be in this case.

have admit I initially read

""We found out that one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless man," the headmaster, Joseph Sullivan,"

that as it being the headmaster was one of the fathers

lol. THAT would have put the cat amongst the pigeons!

I did my A levels at the 6th form which was at my comprehensive school, NOBODY was pregnant during the last year of school, and NOBODY was pregnant during the 6th form either.
This was only in the late 90's early 00's.

There were only 50 pupils in my entire school (aged 7-18) - and in my last year at school (1997) the head girl was pg (though none of the staff knew as she became pg in the 3rd term).

She's now living happily in the South of France with her 4 children (with a maximum of 18 months between each one) and her exceedingly rich DH .

There always seems to be someone on "maternity leave" in dds year at school (16 yr olds).

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