June 24, 2008 08:01 AM
Was There a Pregnancy Pact at a Mass. HS?
When I read the Time magazine article, Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High, I was pretty enthralled by the story. I started thinking about the teenager girls that are in my life, most getting ready to leave for college in August, working at coffee shops, going to the mall, having as much fun as they can this summer. Then I thought about these young women in Massachusetts, and what their futures would be like. I was never a single, teen mother, but I have two kids and I know how tough the early years of their lives can be. And the idea that they had a "pregnancy pact" intrigued me, in a very sad way.
But now, the story is getting more complicated. The school principal does not appear to be standing by the statements he supposedly made to Time, and the town's mayor is stating there may have been no pact at all. Check out this article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Mayor: No Proof of Pregnancy Pact. The principal doesn't seem to be talking to reporters anymore, but comments from a few of the pregnant girls' classmates suggest some of the pregnancies were intention and planned, in Time's Gloucester Pregnancy Plot Thickens.
