Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Pregnancy Pact?



Okay so Saturday night, I sat around the TV of a friend's living room with 10 girls to watch the Premiere of the new Lifetime Movie 'The Pregnancy Pact.' Stuff like this is absolutely insane! A movie about high school teens 15-17 years old making a pact to all get pregnant together so that they can "dress up their kids in cute clothes" and so "they can be best friends together like their moms." What is going on in this world that would make teens at the age of 15 think its okay and "fun" to have a baby? It's sad that this was actually a true story that happened a couple of years ago at a high school. This makes me think something isn't being done or said to teenagers these days. I'm not sure whether our society is promoting a fantasy world to young women about true love in high school through movies, tv shows, magazines, celebrities, etc. or whether our Parents aren't being parents in their teens lives and talking to them about sex and options of birth control, whether it be condoms or the pill. I mean let's be real, parents can tell their kids all they want to "not have sex" or honestly think their teenagers aren't having sex in high school, but in reality most teens are. So why not prevent pregnancy with offering birth control and condoms to teens in high schools, rather than have an abstinence speaker come every year to speak to the school. Clearly that is NOT helping or making a difference.

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