18 Pregnant schoolgirls (BBC 3)

[elkiedee]

Has anyone else watched one of the showings of this documentary about a group of schoolgirls in a US town? It's not the first showing but I haven't caught it before. I'm watching it by accident but only put it on halfway through, but I'm finding it quite fascinating, think I'm going to have to watch on Replay or Iplayer.

I lived in a small town just outside Gloucester MA in 91-92 so it was odd seeing the town (no one ever called it a city when I was there so it must have grown massively) being shown in such a way. It is the same town where The Perfect Storm was based and there is a memorial to the fishermen lost in that church that was shown.

Apparently in 2003 the population was just over 30,000 - even in the UK I wouldn't consider that to be a city-sized population and the US has a lot more cities with a million plus - though I get the impression "city" is used there to refer to a local government area in a way that it's not here.

City in the US refers to the type of government they have.

I lived in a city of 4000.

I saw that, although it was a kind of non story " girls got pg, said it wasnt a plot"
and...er that is it

I agree BSC - it was a non-story. It would have been interesting just to follow more of the girls in their everyday lives, to find out how their home lives impacted on them and so why they each became / wanted to get pregnant.