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by XOXMSperfect on June 19th, 2008

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17 teenage girls in massachusets made a pact that they would all get pregnant and raise their kids together, most are 15-16 years old. Why do you think they would want to do this? your opinion?

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  • by eternal0void on June 20th, 2008

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    Well, human beings natural state is for all the women to get together and raise the kids cooperatively, so its not completely ridiculous.

    Of course, in nature the way it goes is that the women making the natural arrangement are of all ages: older women who now know how to get old along with the younger women. And that is where you are quite right that this "pregnancy pact" is ridiculous, since it seems the girls in question never bothered to ask older women about the downsides of motherhood.

    Where it gets even more ridiculous is that apparently the girls in question were woefully unprepared for the realities of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, because their local school had no real sex education classes. This was partly due to the heavily Christian city they lived in, where their own parents didn't bother with teaching their own kids about sex.

    After 17 girls decided to all get pregnant together, the school nurse and doctor asked for quite rational steps to be taken to limit future pregnancy escapades by the students: school programs teaching contraception, real sex education classes, and the like. Despite the fact that the lack thereof had indirectly led to the 17 girls' "pregnancy pact", the Christian town stood up in fierce opposition to contraception and sex education programs.

    "We're annoyed that our kids did stupid things because they didn't know any better, but we'd like to keep things the way they were when those girls made those mistakes, to make it possible for another 17 or more girls to make the same mistakes later!" one local resident might as well have said.

    Yes the girls were ridiculous, but this was apparently because the town they lived in was composed entirely of ridiculous people.

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    • Well written answer that deserves triple points -- one demurral: don't place quotation marks around a fictitious quotation.

      Stronghart

      by Stronghart on June 20th, 2008

    • Great answer.

      bowlermommy07

      by bowlermommy07 on June 20th, 2008

    • I put quotations around the fictitious quotation merely as a bit of poetic imagery, not intending it to be a "10 out of 10" effort on an English essay. :-P

      eternal0void

      by eternal0void on June 29th, 2008

    • what are you supposed to use? a star? (as in linguistics, to mark an unreal utterance)

      purplecows

      by purplecows on August 15th, 2010

    • apparently i was raised in an unnatural state

      purplecows

      by purplecows on August 15th, 2010

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