Time has an intriguing piece on CNN.com about a Gloucester High School in Gloucester, Mass., which has 17 pregnant girls going into summer vacation. What a coincidence with another teen girl Jamie Lynn Spears giving birth to her baby girl.
Is teen celebrity pregnancy a bad example for teen average girls and boys?
At first the article says girls point to "Juno" and "Knocked Up" as reasons why the girls are getting "knocked up." They think the unwed mommy life is glamorous. Yeah, cause indie-rock songs and track-team boyfriends are soooo cool, so you have to have a little guy or gal to share it all with.
Then the article points to a much better reason: These girls don't have great family lives; they're having children so they can feel unconditional love, so they can know automatically that someone will pay attention to them all the time.
Sure, I can write this off as another "blame the Boomers" rant, but really, it's true. The definition of the American family has changed so much that little girls are now caught between what the family should be, and what it really is. Especially these girls in northeastern towns, where the moral compass swings like a pendulum over their tiny heads.
Really, just another case of "The American Moral Missive" plaguing our childfolk.
Reported by Our Age http://ourage.blogspot.com/
See more on Teen Pregnancy Pact in today's Pregnancy column of eMaxHealth Medical News.
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#1 I really feel there is no
I really feel there is no way to put a finger on teen pregnancy, and why it happens so often. It's been happening since God created man and woman. If you really think about it our moral standards change from one generation to the next. For one to try and control that, would be like humans trying to control eveloution... It's not going to happen. I am a father of 5 girls and one boy. Parents of today have to take time to educate their children on the reality that they will be invluenced by there peers, and to teach them at an early age to be independent emotionally and physically. What happens after that is out of our hands.. Keep it simple..