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Teen ‘pregnancy pact’ has 17 girls expecting
Posted by DrBurst • 6/20/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
This article has haughted me. How can anyone treat bringing a life into this work as a game. Likeit's a neo-pet or something.
read more here www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25272678/ then tell mewhat you think.
I will end this this quote
"Many of the girls said that they had made the pact so that they could raise their babies together"
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Strikes me as a kind of immature way to gain power over one's life. Except they don't understand how powerless they might feel later.
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very well said.
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I think part of the reason you have this is because the cabbage patch kids went out of style in the 1980s.
I remember adults and kids bought those dolls and treated them like their own babies. They came with a birth name and everything. Maybe we need some dolls like that today but with more modern names. Then some 10th graders can buy those and wheel them around as if they own them.
They use to fight each other in the stores for these dolls. Fist fights and all I remember in the 1980s. You can probably find some videos online of them all.-
we have the sims though. I even think there is a bady raising video game
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It is not the same probably as an actual doll.
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no, it's better, much better.
yea, ok, video games can't replace everything.
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This should be a community & national issue. We should all be concerned about this and volunteer to address this. Small grassroots group ROCK at making things happen!!! -
I thought it was hard getting pregnant? The guy must be superman.
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Frightening. Sounds cult-like. I wonder who the leader is of this group. Did they receive any sex education at all? -
I heard that on the news. Tis a true disgrace for lack of a better.
I think each teenager that reaches high school should be taught exactly what it is like to raise a child.
It was done here and what an eye opener it was. They had feedings in the middle of the night, diaper changes, arrenged for baby sitters so they could work, (partime of course) Had to pay for the sitter, balance a check book, pay room and board etc.-
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Yeah, I know they do that n schools around town here...Some schools are even dropping it from the curriculum, because so many kids are failing it. Too many kids are willing to take the failed grade and have the "f-you" attitude about it. I heard a couple of co-workers complain about it last year that they did not appreciate their children having to go through it, that they were too busy keeping their honor roll status and sports activities to "play with dolls".
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- Mmm, Cindy, oh my god, look at THIS adorable baby?
- Yes, I see it, my mom just bought one for Christmas.
- No Cindy. I am not talking about the purse. I am talking about this actual life size baby over there.
- Oh my god. I want one. Let’s do a pregnancy pact tonight.
- Sweet, we could use Hillary Duff’s music…somehow. -
After viewing this video, which I find disturbing, I feel the children will later find out about the pact and it will be a huge impact on them.
As for the young mothers to be, I would make them do a community service, just to stay in school while pregnant, or after their deliveries. I would not allow school or education to be free to these ladies anymore. Perhaps everyone would indeed learn from this and not want to repeat such a careless and insensitive act toward these babies which are gestating. Respect for their lives, not what young girls see as an immature way to get attention.
I feel for their babies, not for them. They all knew better. They went along with the crowd and it will become more crowded in a few months.-
I don't think that will hurt them. I think they want the babies. So, the best way would be to take the babies aay. Your plan is like sending the kid t there room, they still have everything that means something to them.
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You cannot take their babies away from them. Where are you hailing from?
I don't have a plan. But they did. I simply suggested we do not encourage free education for mindless chits. -
why should a minor be able to raise a child. Its illegal in that state for someone younger then 16 to have sex. Thus, a baby born to a 16 year old is illegal.
don't you think the free education will be cheaper then these kids depending on welfare. -
Ok, DrBurst, thake that baby away...just like that...then what? What do you propose?
Make it good, now, for further conversation. -
I would not grant them public assistance. Not in this instance. This is, as far as I know, the only such pact I have ever heard of. It is a stupid and reckless thing for them to have done, but they will have to work for the rest of it. School, and help, to get them into some type of meaningful job to support their community baby group. Apparently, their parents and relatives will be pitching in to balance things out.
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I can't find evidence to back up my claim, Theresa111 is right.
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Carrying my 10 month old baby anywhere results in teenage girls screaming and cooing and falling all over themselves like she was a chihuahua. But my older daughters are safe, they KNOW how hard it is to raise a baby because they help out. -
I guess this thread got shut down maybe?
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wow.. I can't even believe that.. Babies aren't accessories..-
yeah..no kidding, Janelle...I hear that
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Babies are precious gifts. They are not to be used for another's intentions.
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Stunned, that's all I can say. As for the 'fathers', part of me thinks throw the book at them, another part thinks they may have been unwitting accomplices and maybe the issue isn't as simple that. I pity the parents of these girls who are most likely going to have to shell out a lot to support them through this
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