Teen Pregnancy Rates Rising On TV, Real Life

Yet another study shows teen pregnancy rates are rising — and our outrage at this contrasts creepily with our cultural obsession with teen moms themselves.

Yet another study shows teen pregnancy rates are rising — and our outrage at this contrasts creepily with our cultural obsession with teen moms themselves.
The Lifetime original movie The Pregnancy Pact (airing January 23) purports to be "based on a true story," but staff members at Gloucester High School—where the pact was allegedly made—are denouncing it, saying it's a work of fiction.
Teens may look innocent, but they're all conspiring to put a baby in your belly! At least, that's what we gleaned from this ad for the Lifetime movie inspired by the (probably non-existent) pregnancy pact made by 17 Massachusetts girls.
Lifetime is developing the TV movie Pregnancy Pact, which is inspired by the 17 Massachusetts teens accused of conspiring to get pregnant. The film won't be directly about the pregnant teens, since they've denied the pact ever existed. [Variety]
The conventional wisdom holds that media types are biased in favor of the Theory of Evolution. So why is it all they seem to print these days are stories hellbent on convincing us that the WRONG PEOPLE are procreating?? No doubt you, too, spent more time over the past few months consuming the latest on the Duggar…
ABC Family's much-hyped teen pregnancy drama The Secret Life of an American Teenager debuts tonight and that, coupled with the Gloucester High baby explosion, has inspired a slew of articles discussing the state of barely-legal uteri. Christopher Caldwell of the Financial Times claims that the current "ideology" of…
The Gloucester "pregnancy pact" continues to make news, both in the United States and abroad. Though almost all of the knocked up kids have refused to speak to the press about the alleged "blood oath" for which they all agreed to get pregnant together by any means necessary (rumor is that one of the fathers is a local
Kathleen Kingsbury, the Time scribe behind the now-infamous Gloucester "pregnancy pact" article went on Today to discuss the controversy brewing behind the piece. As previously reported, the Mayor of Gloucester, Carolyn Kirk, has said that the notion that the 17 pregnant Gloucester High students had made a pact to get…
Carolyn Kirk, the Mayor of Gloucester, Massachusetts, says that the teen "pregnancy pact" the country is up in arms about has "not been confirmed." Despite the fact that 17 Gloucester High girls, all 16 or younger and most of them sophomores, all became pregnant this spring, because "the high school principal is the…