Report: Gloucester Teens Had Pact To Get Pregnant

wbztv.com ^ | Jun 19, 2008 8:10 am US/Eastern | CBS Broadcasting

[dalereed]

“When I was in high school, we just had a school nurse”

When I was in high school in the early 50s we didn’t even have that and there was 3600 in the school.

[ExGeeEye]

I’d like to know more about this 24 y.o. homeless man - what could be his attraction that a group of young fools want to bear his children? Bleah. Had a d*ck, wasn't afraid to use it, was not interested in being a nuisance afterward (like a husband would be).

[johnny7]

in the past, Pat would marry Marie and they would have a miserable marriage, but at least provide a financially stable household for the child.

True... and both would have been laughed at(behind their backs) for their lame-a$$ decision. These idiots in Gloucester probably have half the school as their own, personal rooting/support group.

[Clemenza]

I second what Exgeeeye said about the homeless guy. I also think it was a fetish on the part of the girl ie “oooh, I get so turned out with the DANGER of getting pregnant by a filthy homeless guy.”

[who knows what evil?]

Could be her “wife”... for all I know.

In Massachusetts..? No doubt. They seem to have similar facial features to me...maybe my eyes are finally starting to fail.

[heartwood]

It might just be involuntary bug chasing. There was a case in upstate NY at decade or so back where a black, HIV positive, twenty-something, homeless guy infected/impregnated white high school girls.

The attraction to danger, to the taboo, to p.o’ing your parents is something I can barely comprehend, but attraction to the scuzzy? And a girl may like a bad man, because danger is exciting and if he devotes himself to her, it proves how special she is, but to share him with half a dozen of her friends?

I do not understand the world some of today’s girls live in.

[IIntense]

True...and both would have been laughed at(behind their backs)...

I remember a time when pregnant single girls were subjects of plenty of criticism. Most of it probably came from their parents, but the neighbors young and old looked down on what they did, also.

At one time there was a stigma attached to certain behaviours. Though some may see it as mean, I believe it was and is necessary in order to keep society intact.

The majority of those who grew up in the 40s and 50s have good reason to believe that this country has "gone to hell in a handbasket" (origin apparently not known). We all get the gist of it, though. (Origin