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A group of teenage girls made a solemn pact - not to be friends forever, go to the prom together or try out for a sports team.
They agreed to get pregnant. And they kept their promise.
Seventeen girls at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts are expecting babies, Time.com first reported.
None of the mothers-to-be, who are planning to raise their babies together, are over age 16. One of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless man.
In a typical year, the school has about 4 pregnancies among its 1,200 students.
Schools Superintendent Christopher Farmer said the girls "lack self-esteem and have a lack of love in their life," in an interview with local news station WBZTV.
School officials discovered the pact after they noticed a spike in the number of girls requesting pregnancy tests at their health clinic.
"Some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Joseph Sullivan, the school's principal, told Time.
A girl who had a baby during her freshman year and recently graduated from the school explained to the magazine her own theory about the unusual decision.
"They're so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally," Amanda Ireland, 18, said. "I try to explain it's hard to feel loved when an infant is screaming to be fed at 3 a.m."
The school, which encourages teenage mothers to stay in school with on-site day-care, is currently reviewing its policies on contraception and sex-education classes.
In response to the rash of pregnancies, the school’s nurse practitioner and medical director wanted to start distributing birth control without parental consent. After the town’s mayor protested, they quit.
If you went to school, with the teens how would you feel. What kind of advice would you give them. The parents of the teens; Bad / Good What the school should have done to prevent this?
Bloody hell 17 of them? that is the most stupid thing i have in ages. Why the hell make a pact like that? you should have babies as you are in love and want one, not to copy your friends and they are all below 16? disgraceful
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Pregnancy pacts are stupid, like wtf? Us males dont go around saying oh we all gonna get girls pregnant at the same time
lol
Anyway are they mad or something bloody hell getting sad for not being pregnant at under 16! Man and having a homeless person who you don't even know as a baby's father, serves them right if they get some bloody STD
oh yeah i read this in the times, but didnt they deny making a pact??
if its true they made a pact, its the most stupidest thing i have ever heard of, having a baby just for the sake of having a baby and not cause you want one.
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teen girls make a pact to get pregnant.
