Pregnancy Pacts

[Christine Murray]

I was wondering if there was any reaction to the Pregnancy Pact story?

Media is publishing articles that young girls have been going for pregnancy tests and getting
disappointed when the results were negative (in Massachusetts)- Personally I can think of better
things for teenage girls to be doing with their time.

17 of them , however have managed to get themselves pregnant and are planning baby showers and
doll-houses for the future brats (forgive me) but that is hardly the best way to be using your youth.
There is no mention of the daddies, so I am assuming that this 'fad for Life' issue will have a short run
and create the kind of parental nightmare that makes people wake up in a cold sweat.

Deliciously for the US the girlies were working on a communal thing- thats some level of co-operation
and needless to say a rather painful way of assuring feminine bonding over a few decades....

( I expect those who helped make the babies were asked about the whole planned parenthood thing
and were not sperm-harvested ;)

[Aggressor]

I was planning my own thread on this, "Massachusetts' Girls Are Easy". :mrgreen:

[joemomma]

There is no mention of the daddies, so I am assuming that this 'fad for Life' issue will have a short run
and create the kind of parental nightmare that makes people wake up in a cold sweat.

The article I read said that one of the suspected daddies is a 24-year-old homeless man.

[The Earl of Desmond]

Some of them were under age so they daddies and mammies can be charged - also the parties of these stupid sl*gs should be held to account.

And don't get all drama queen cos I called them sl*gs - they are - the guys too. How anyone of their ages can be so stupid to think that you can or should have a child in that manner is truely amazing and that they live in an urban area is worse - no doubt that film Juno is the reason.

If they lived in some remote Utah or Texas cult you can understand why people could be so naive and stupid.

As for one of the fathers being a 24 year homeless guy - did they just go up to random men and have unprotected sex? Did they all get prganant first time or keep going and how many of them also will find out as well as having a baby they also have an STD and or HIV?

It has to be one of the weirdest stories ever.

[Christine Murray]

Seeing yourself as having nothing to hope for at 17 save making babies in a glorious pact
with your girlfriends doesn't make you easy- the proposition in US society is a scary one.

Everything is very expensive, including healthcare and access to maternity services
which is why women sensibly leave off the breeding until they can afford it and then
hang onto it desperately by voting for people like Bush.

I think the issue will be spun and hived off-



Sex does not necessarily have to result in pregnancy, ye know.
Now if it were 17 girls from Louth, we'd be making poems ...

[essexboy]

Some of them were under age so they daddies and mammies can be charged - also the parties of these stupid sl*gs should be held to account.

And don't get all drama queen cos I called them sl*gs - they are - the guys too. How anyone of their ages can be so stupid to think that you can or should have a child in that manner is truely amazing and that they live in an urban area is worse - no doubt that film Juno is the reason.

If they lived in some remote Utah or Texas cult you can understand why people could be so naive and stupid.

As for one of the fathers being a 24 year homeless guy - did they just go up to random men and have unprotected sex? Did they all get prganant first time or keep going and how many of them also will find out as well as having a baby they also have an STD and or HIV?

It has to be one of the weirdest stories ever.

They don't charge underage girls who get pregnant in Ireland. A local 16 year-old got pregnant by a 17 year old but the HSE and An Garda Síochána looked the other way.

[Christine Murray]

The pact is the thing in this issue. A stated plan to get pregnant and to raise babies at 17.

They are urbanised females with a sex-education programme in their high-school and pregnancy tests
available to them. but I don't think it was thought through.

Societally it is incredibly difficult to get through the expense of making babies in the US.
thats a fact, friends of mine have returned home (dual nationality) for their pregnancies
because they cannot afford the system over there. with sex-education programmes that
are absolutely necessary the issue of looking at single-parenthood, isolation, access to schools
should form part of the programmes.

The issue of consent and under-age is part of it but not wholly the issue- adequate education
on prevention, STD's and basic self-esteem come into it too- it's an appalling situation for
anyone to find themselves in.


[ireland]
With regard to charging etc- the unconstitutional section 5 of the Criminal Law( Sexual Offences act 2006,
updated 2007) and the repurcussive effects of that were debated in the Dáil on June
the first and second 2006. Young women should be able to see themselves as much more than generative...,

[LAAlex]

"Urbanized" is perhaps not the best description of Gloucester, Mass. It's a small town, a fishing community of about 30,000, pretty poor (anyone read the book/seen the film A Perfect Storm? that's the place.)

Not that it makes it any less strange, I'm just saying.

[Universal_001]

Is this story like the "our girls are being thought fisting"...or is it..ye know...true?

Or it it like this stuff...

http://naea.inovaone.com/

[taylorwemyss]

American homeschooling girls are becoming more and more promiscuous. At the school I go, 9th grade girls will sleep with any 12th grader.