There’s a stunning twist to the sudden rise in teen pregnancies at Gloucester High School. 17 students there are expecting and, according to a published report, most of them became that way on purpose. Time Magazine is reporting that nearly half of the girls confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. None of the girls is older than 16. Principal Joseph Sullivan said that wasn’t all that was shocking. “We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy,” he told Time. Last month, two top officials at the high school’s health center resigned in a fight over contraceptives distribution. Medical Director Dr. Brian Orr and chief nurse practitioner Kim Daly support confidentially giving contraceptives to students. They were outraged about resistance from Addison Gilbert Hospital, which administers the state public health grant that funds the school clinic. Normally, the school has about four pregnancies per school year. According to Time, school officials started looking into the spike in pregnancies after an unusual number of girls came to the school clinic for pregnancy tests. Some came by several times. “Some girls seemed more upset when they weren’t pregnant than when they were,” Sullivan told the magazine. The pregnant girls and their parents turned down requests to be interviewed. A recent graduate who had a baby during her freshman year told Time she knows why the girls wanted to get pregnant. “They’re so excited to finally …

Thanks for viewing and post comments at the bottom. Sensitive issues require a disclaimer: If the media was so interested in the pregnant teenagers, then why is there so much sex in the media? And that includes the news! In the world of media, the way you cover a story is to do a fact check. It seems like three major cable networks; led by the Associated Press, drive the media frenzy. Jamie Lynn Spears gives birth to a daughter at seventeen. Last year, the media was dogging the hell out of Jamie Lynn and her sister mega-star Britney Spears. The media acted like a shocked parent finding out their teenage daughter is pregnant. I would at least find twenty pregnant young girls in the city public schools. I can remember the period of 1998 — 1999, there were twenty young girls who had given birth or were pregnant at the time of my graduation. But in the town of Gloucester, you hear “bizarre deal”, “pact”, “24-year old homeless man”, and “need to fit in”! The media goes crazy and bring us non-stop coverage of issues that requires a parent. The media should have no business injecting their venom to a sensitive issue. Hope for the best for the young girls and their boyfriends and/or husbands. Public schools are trained to inform students about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), teenage pregnancy and parenting. They are qualified professionals who maintain information to those who are in need of help. If were not allowed to do this, then you will have a bunch of uninformed …
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