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Teen girls reportedly make pregnancy pact (CNN)
GLOUCESTER, Massachusetts (AP) -- A pact made by a group of teens to get pregnant and raise their babies together is at least partly behind a sudden spike in pregnancies at Gloucester High School, school officials said.

Principal Joseph Sullivan told Time magazine in a story published Wednesday that the girls confessed to making the pact after the school began investigating a rise in pregnancies that has left 17 girls at the school carrying a child. Normally, there are about four pregnancies a year at the school.

Sullivan told Time that nearly half of the expecting students, none over 16, were involved. Sullivan said students were coming to the school clinic multiple times to get pregnancy tests, and "seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were."

Some of the girls reacted to the news they were pregnant with high fives and plans for baby showers, Sullivan said. One of the fathers "is a 24-year-old homeless guy," Sullivan told the magazine.
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Superintendent Christopher Farmer confirmed the deal to WBZ-TV, saying the girls had "an agreement to get pregnant."

He said the girls are generally "girls who lack self-esteem and have a lack of love in their life."

Whoa.... this is crazy and incredibly sad! How is it possible that these girls can find no love outside of what they will have with their children? Where are their parents and adult role models? Do they understand how this is going to affect their future? What will they do about paying for the costs of taking care of a baby? How did the school not do more education on this topic? What has the media done to stem this trend?

What needs to change? Cause something has to.... something must be done to reach out to girls like these and give them hope and acceptance and love. Some one needs to sit down and discuss what teen pregnancy really means... not what they see in movies or in celebrity lives, but what it means for an average girl... who will now have a hard time finishing high school.