Via WISH TV 8…

Word of the pregnancy pact comes from the principal of Gloucester High School. Joseph Sullivan tells Time magazine in a story published this week that the girls confessed to making the pact after the school began investigating. Seventeen girls there are pregnant, and Sullivan says nearly half were involved in the pact — none more than 16 years old.

This truly bothers me on so many levels.

First, say the “pact” is true, why in the world would you think that’s a good idea?  Teenagers girls seem to have more, how to phrase it, emotional/self-esteem issues than most teenage boys do (from what you can “see”).  But come on, this is just ludicrous and I hope that it is untrue.

Second, and just as disturbing, is the mere fact of so many pregnancies in one high school.  That is just baffling.  I went to an “inner-city” (a.k.a. “urban”) high school with a few thousand students and there were only a handful each year (which is still too many IMO).

Anyway, I’m floored and am just scratching my head as this is outright crazy.  I thought that normal kids these days rebelled by piercing something, dying their hair and wearing certain clothing.  I thought that we as adults (parents, relatives, etc) were educating the younger generations about the dangers of sex, drugs, tobacco and alcohol.  But maybe I’m wrong?  I just pray that I do a half-way decent job parenting my children so that they know that dear old dad isn’t being mean or trying to thwart their fun, but to instead protect them.