I hope their love for changing diapers in "unconditional." So ridiculous......
BOSTON - A group of girls at a New England high school got together and made a pact to get pregnant at the same time, so they could raise their babies together, a report says.
According to TIME magazine and Boston's WBZ-TV (CBS), nearly half of the 17 pregnant teens at Gloucester High School became pregnant on purpose as a result of the pact.
The school's principal said there's an even bigger shock to this story.
"We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy," said principal Joseph Sullivan.
Not one of the pregnant girls is over the age of 16.
When some of the girls discovered that they were indeed pregnant, they reportedly reacted by giving each other "high fives" and immediately planning baby showers. None of the girls agreed to be interviewed for TIME's story.
TIME magazine's report said administrators began looking into the matter when an unusually high number of girls began seeking pregnancy tests at the school's clinic.
"Some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Sullivan told TIME.
A recent Gloucester graduate, who had a baby during her freshman year, told the magazine that she knows why the girls want to get pregnant.
"They are so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally," said 18-year-old Amanda Ireland. "I try to explain... it's hard to feel 'loved' when an infant is screaming to be fed at 3:00 a.m."
TIME questioned whether teen pregnancies in pop culture might be glamorizing the life of unwed young mothers. Recent movies like Juno and Knocked Up feature this scenario, as does the real-life teen pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears, the star of a teen TV program.
According to national data, teen pregnancies increased by 3 percent in 2006 -- the first increase in 15 years.
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Now Bristol Palin (Sarah Palins' daughter), enough is enough.
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