Suddenly there were as a 400 per cent increase in teen pregnancies at a Massachusetts high school. An investigation found that the students made a pact to get pregnant at the same time.
Time Magazine investigated the sudden rise in teen pregnancy at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts. They uncovered an agreement between the girls to get pregnant at the same time. All are under 16 years old.
Principal Joseph Sullivan told
Time Magazine that the pregnancies were not shocking but one of the teenagers got pregnant with a 24-year-old homeless man.
Time Magazine reported that nearly half of the girls confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raising the babies together.
The same school has been involved in a fight recently with Addison Gilbert Hospital, which administers the state public health grant that funds the school clinic. The hospital refused to give the school funds because the school clinic wanted to give the pills to the students anonymously and preserve confidentiality of the students.
According to the school clinic’s records, the school normally has about four pregnancies per academic year.
The school officials began to investigate after a number of girls came to visit the school clinic for pregnancy tests. Some of the girls came repeatedly to do the tests. A few of them were noticeably upset when they were not getting pregnant, according to Sullivan.
Both the pregnant girls and the parents declined to be interviewed for this story.
One recent graduate, Amanda Ireland, 18, became pregnant during her freshman year and talked about this case with Time Magazine.. She told them:
They're so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally…I try to explain it's hard to feel loved when an infant is screaming to be fed at 3 a.m.
It is too late to change the circumstances; the parents and the school should at least make sure the kids will be good mothers and train them adequately.
