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- aboyd, on 06/19/2008, -5/+585From the article: "No one's offered them a better option."
Wow. So these girls looked at options like:
1. Staying single, going to college, having an awesome career, finding the man of their dreams
2. Staying single, getting a low-maintenance job, and partying with friends on the weekends
3. Finding an employed, responsible person to father the kid and stick around to HELP
...aaaanndd instead they said, "Those options suck. A much better option is to make a kid with an unemployed bum and then care for the baby on my own for the next 18 years. It'll be fun because Sally from my economics class is doing it too, and she said babies are easy and cheap."
My God. This is just stupid chasing after stupid. - inactive, on 06/19/2008, -17/+509Babies having babies is never a good thing.
- tomlasusa, on 06/19/2008, -2/+384"Mommy, who is my daddy?"
"Sweety, you know that nice derelict we saw on yesterday who was urinating into an empty Big Gulp cup while asking for spare change?"
"Ummm yeah?"
"Well your daddy was the filthy bum holding the cup for him." - Puisapres, on 06/19/2008, -4/+353I love how the Time article tries to blame this on the lack of contraceptives in the "heavily Catholic" region. Um, if girls want to get pregnant, they're not going to use contraceptives in the first place...
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -5/+289Teens are now 100% Broken, unlike in my time when they were only 95% broken...
- bjs3171, on 06/19/2008, -2/+258in what way did Knocked Up or Juno glamorize unwed pregnancies? What I took from those movies is "god damn, i'm glad i'm a dude."
- Ahnteis, on 06/19/2008, -4/+165>and she said babies are easy and cheap.
The babies aren't who is easy and cheap.... - a1cd, on 06/19/2008, -3/+161"Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for glamorizing young unwed mothers"
Come on now... really? - leerayIG88, on 06/19/2008, -1/+152"I do whatever I want!"
- marx2k, on 06/19/2008, -3/+153Well, the hymen part, anyway.
- rpi22, on 06/19/2008, -0/+138Then the story got worse. "We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy," the principal says, shaking his head.
- partyoverhaul, on 06/19/2008, -2/+127"They're so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally"
yeah you missed the part where you get a partner to help you out, and set yourself up financially so your child does live in the hell hole i imagine them ending up in. i would bitch slap my mom if i found out THAT was the reason i existed, cause she wanted a friend - fluidfoundation, on 06/19/2008, -9/+126I believe in making this world a better place for our children, but not our childrens children, because children shouldnt be having sex.
- gannondork, on 06/19/2008, -3/+107WHAT THE ***** ARE YOU DOING ON THE COMPUTER THEN?????
- dball48, on 06/19/2008, -0/+100yea, you would expect homeless guys to be more responsible about stuff like that
- Lavarock, on 06/19/2008, -3/+95Insane. So ***** insane. 15 year old girls are the most mindless creatures on the planet.
- UtopiaInTheSky, on 06/19/2008, -12/+100You can dereLICK my balls.
- CapeKid, on 06/19/2008, -0/+84I never thought I would get a chance to post this comic in context:
http://www.explosm.net/comics/1288/ - hokie47, on 06/19/2008, -4/+85Where is Jonathan Swift when you need him
- stephenhacking, on 06/19/2008, -5/+85If only a country with a low fertility rate like Russia/Japan had a school like this!
- hotlatte, on 06/19/2008, -1/+81Yeah. Don't believe these ridiculous explanations: "It's movies like Juno". The problem is far bigger than that. Movies no more make teens want to go out and get pregnant than songs make kids commit suicide. This is a parenting issue -- and the surge is only a blip on the radar.
- vick3ii, on 06/19/2008, -0/+78That is the number of girls that actually got pregnant (17), however, the "dozens" refer to those girls who actually made the pact...
- trafficlight, on 06/19/2008, -1/+73I didn't think Knocked Up glamorized pregnancy at all. Frankly, they made it look pretty ***** terrible. And they weren't even in high school anymore.
- scipi0, on 06/19/2008, -4/+73The fact that one of the fathers ended up being a 24-year old homeless guy is utterly repulsive. Especially in light of the fact that the girl was less than 16.
- HumbleDialog, on 06/19/2008, -1/+70You end up with this sort of Russian doll situation. How small are they gonna get?
- lisaawesome, on 06/19/2008, -0/+66***** from my female perspective both movies were like flashing advertisements for using multiple birth control methods.
- Evazan21, on 06/19/2008, -5/+66"The high school has done perhaps too good a job of embracing young mothers. Sex-ed classes end freshman year at Gloucester, where teen parents are encouraged to take their children to a free on-site day-care center. Strollers mingle seamlessly in school hallways among cheerleaders and junior ROTC. "We're proud to help the mothers stay in school," says Sue Todd, CEO of Pathways for Children, which runs the day-care center. "
Whenever something is subsidized expect to get more of it. - fluidfoundation, on 06/19/2008, -1/+61Thanks for wearing out my scroll wheel, jackass.
- picpak, on 06/19/2008, -4/+632guys1cup...
- Unlgued, on 06/19/2008, -0/+59Maybe all 17 will rent a house together and the US will have a new TV show.
- krnldmp, on 06/19/2008, -2/+58There has never been a shortage of young women that correctly conclude the only thing they can do properly is get pregnant. These go on to become women that might create a Myspace or Facebook account in search of a partner (usually a male) while entering text that states quite simply, "My baby is the most important thing in my life.", and forever wonder why they have such a hard time with everything.
- Stuart750, on 06/19/2008, -0/+56Some people are stupid.
- fluidfoundation, on 06/19/2008, -2/+57Or you just do a better job of keeping tabs on what your kids watch. My previous statement was in jest.
- Carramrod72, on 06/19/2008, -0/+52I hope I have sons...
- lisaawesome, on 06/19/2008, -0/+52Man the prego doggy style scene in Knocked Up REALLY made me want to have a baby. That definitely glamorized pregnancy.
- matrixbandit, on 06/19/2008, -3/+55I always have to smile when I hear someone refer to "teaching abstinence". Seriously, abstinence takes about 5 seconds to be "taught", what you are REALLY talking about is pushing the idea of abstinence as the SOLE RESPONSIBLE option, which any rational, intelligent and religiously unencumbered person already knows is *****.
As far as blaming this on the Catholics.. meh.. as a culture nowadays we tend to raise girls to idolize child bearing, in some cases fanatically to the exclusion of instilling any other ambitions. I think it's quite sad, there's so many girls out there that have this romanticized view of how their life will be important and mean something if they get pregnant, that everyone will pay attention to them, and their baby will love them and it will fix everything so they'll always be happy from then on.
If anything, we need pregnancy consequence education in schools, complete with ugly videos of what the process is really and truly like, with the blood and the screaming and the baby tantrums and the not getting any sleep because your baby keeps waking up hungry and then you can't get a half way decent job because you can't finish school because you don't have any time since you work full time.... - mfhayes, on 06/19/2008, -0/+51Yeah, let's place the blame on someone else.
Who needs parents anyways. - mywhitenoise, on 06/19/2008, -0/+50Blaming Knocked Up? The movie is Rated R, and the character played by Kathryn Heigl looks like she's 30.
- madwaxer, on 06/19/2008, -17/+66take away the TVs!
- coheedcollapse, on 06/19/2008, -1/+43It makes me more and more scared for the human race as I find out the kinds of people around me that are reproducing. People I know with any sort of brain in their head whatsoever are choosing to have a kid as late in life as possible, while the most idiotic of the bunch have 2, 3, 4 children at the age of 20 - most accidental.
Natural selection unfortunately doesn't work in our society on stupid people. The human population is completely doomed. - panacean, on 06/19/2008, -0/+42But now that they're pregnant, what other kind of shenanigans can they get into?
- clayasaurus, on 06/19/2008, -2/+44digg up for awesomeness and exposing ignorance
- ganus, on 06/19/2008, -2/+43Zing
- nymphetamine, on 06/19/2008, -4/+43Suddenly I'm in the mood for gay sex.
- clarient, on 06/19/2008, -2/+40Are you ***** serious.
- MrKite, on 06/19/2008, -6/+44I live right near Gloucester, and these girls are running around frantically looking for men to have sex with them. They'll take anyone!
- jake07, on 06/19/2008, -2/+40All they do is fu** and watch T.V. and you want to take away the T.V.
- ganus, on 06/19/2008, -0/+36Why don't they buy a dog or something if they wanted unconditional love. Dogs love you forever unlike some children.
- xrod, on 06/19/2008, -1/+36Some of them probably seduced the nerdiest virgin guys in school saying, "Oh yes, I'm on birth control," and now they'll be getting child support from their generation's most successful. Smart move.
- warlokaz2004, on 06/19/2008, -1/+35I want to say in defense of the "24 year old homeless guy"
I'm just wondering if some guy, maybe between jobs, living on a friends couch, is the '24 year old homeless guy' -- cuz frankly, I think we've all been there. If its an honest to goodness, 'I sleep outside and can't remember the last time I bathed' bum, then 'ewwwwww' -
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