Posted on 06/28/2008 11:36:30 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
The ideology of teen pregnancy
By Christopher Caldwell
Published: June 27 2008 19:59 | Last updated: June 27 2008 19:59
Every year at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts, three or four girls get pregnant. But not this year. This year 17 did. When Time magazine alleged that some of the girls had a “pregnancy pact”, reporters and cameramen from around the world descended on the fishing port. Whether the pact was a teenage dare or a practical arrangement by the girls to give each other moral support has been hotly debated. No one disputes, though, that many were delighted to discover they were pregnant. “Sweet!” one of them shouted in the school nurse’s office. The school superintendent admitted: “They were not trying very hard not to get pregnant.”
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Ping!
The pregnant teens probably can’t read well or add and subtract, so it makes sense that they’d want to become mothers so they can pass their ignorance on to a new generation.
So it all evens out, eh? (laugh)
Glow-Stah: where folks from New Bedford like to go to feel classy. ;-)
Babies are fun.
Social policy has made them a no-lose proposition for teens.
...”Social policy has made them a no-lose proposition for teens”...
Yes! Society gets more of what brings reward without consequences and less of what is punished. Think of rewards as something “tax free,” and punishment as “increased taxation.” Never mind that the rewards are short lived. “Political Correctness” has stifled any judgment of destructive behavior in America, so, all of these things will increase dramatically which will bring broad suffering to everyone. Strong self-discipline is required to make something of oneself and that fact alone insures that fewer and fewer people are going to be around to support all of this increasing poverty.
Baby Daddy Barack will take care of them for life.
It does point out that no amount of sex ed is going to keep a teenager from having a baby if she decides that is what she wants to do.
(Just wondering) my foot........keep your crapola to yourself. By your own admission you have utilized the "Marxist government indoctrination centers" for your own children, so it is about time you get off your high horse.
You have admitted to (helping) funding the education of your grandchildren when your own genius homeschooled children are unable to do it on their own. Gee, my public schooled sister-in-law needed no help in educating her own children, who also attended public schools at points in time in their lives and neither of them are relying on mommy to help them pay their bills.
You really need to watch yourself wintertime, you are making yourself and your prouncements look worse and worse each time you make them.
Of course it isn't cut and paste spam, but just in the past 2 days, on 4 different threads...
Is this the “socialization” that homeschoolers are missing? ( Just wondering.)
Yes, that is the socialization that someone's homeschooler will be missing.
Is this the socialization that homeschoolers are missing? ( Just wondering?)
The same crapola over, and over, and over again. Heck she basically admitted to such in a response to softballMom the other day.
Someone so unwilling to actually discuss an issue is really not worth bothering with except to use as an example of a fanatic.
I should really start pinging you all to some of the nanny-state posts for examples of similar fanaticism. Totally irrational and without sound back up.
Are there problems within the public schools systems? Yes, of course there are and I have yet to see anyone deny such. Are there good schools and good teachers within the systems? Of course. That is where the problem with the broad brush of the anti-public school poster wintertime comes into play.
As far as Ms. wintertime is concerned there is no such thing as a good public school or a good public school teacher.
That is her personal opinion, however it is in total disagreement with my personal opinion. My opinion is just as valid as hers. Which is an actual FACT she has refused to acknowledge.
Whatever.
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