So-called pregnancy pact in Mass. town questioned
“The story made headlines almost immediately: High school girls in this New England fishing town had made a pact to get pregnant. Now the account is under fire. One of the teenagers who became pregnant during the school year and the city’s mayor disputed the pact theory originally stated by the high school principal.”
Ok, looks like I got taken in by this one. Still, pact or no, the question remains: why are there so many teenaged girls pregnant in Gloucester? If it’s because they came to the conclusion that the best future available to them is to start getting pregnant and having babies as soon as they possibly could, it’s still an awfully discouraging story.
