wbztv.com - Time Magazine Report: Gloucester High School Teens Had Pact To Get Pregnant

I don't even know what to write. Wow...........................

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A 24-year-old homeless guy??? And is it just me, or does 4 pregnancies in a normal school year sound like a high number? This whole situation is so sad

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I don't think I knew anyone who got pregnant in high school who didn't mean to. Maybe I should be shocked by the article, but I'm not.

I'm 26, when I was in high school it was about 2-3/year. Four sounds high, but just about right.

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At first as if the 24 yr old homeless guy was the father of all the kids....OOPS! But could you image if that were the actual case .....EWWWW!!!!

This is such a sad story. A homeless man is one of the fathers?? I wonder if all these girls were good friends with each other?

I also read in another newspaper that the school already has in operation an in-school daycare for students who have babies and school staff, so this must be a school that is used to their girls having babies at a young age.

I live about 20 miles from there. It does not surprise me. My boys go to a k-8 school.Thier is an eigth grader with a two year old.At least three pregnancies in the last two years.This is middle school I am talking about.

WOW!!! I remember in HS there was one girl who's Mom was a math teacher, and her Dad was Superintendent. The girl was quite shy and VERY studious. She got pregnant her senior year. Not for lack of good parenting, I can tell you that. I knew the family personally, and had even been to her house on many occasions.

It has become "accepted" by many, IMO, for a teenage pregnancy. I think it's sad, I really do. I asked DS if anyone in school was pregnant, he said no. Hmmmm, we must be "lucky" I guess???

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We may not have heard the whole story yet?

GLOUCESTER, Mass. — One of the girls who became pregnant at Gloucester High School this year denied Tuesday there was any pact among them to have children, saying instead they decided to help each other make the best of their situations.

Lindsey Oliver refuted the principal's claim that a sharp increase in teen pregnancies — 17 compared to a typical four — was in part because several girls planned to get pregnant so they could raise their babies together.

"There was definitely no pact," Oliver told "Good Morning America." "There was a group of girls already pregnant that decided they were going to help each other to finish school and raise their kids together. I think it was just a coincidence."

Oliver, 17, said she became pregnant by accident and that she and her 20-year-old boyfriend, Andrew Psalidas, a community college student, were using birth control.....{snip}

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Reminds me of the kid from American Idol who lived out of his car. Maybe he has a little boudoir set up in the back.

Rebecca

Time has retracted the "pact" theory. I'm not sure how big Gloucester high school is, but I did hear that MA has one of the lower teen-pregnancy rates in the country.