Annie's Baby

This story is about a pregnant fourteen year old girl named Annie. She always wanted to be with the "in" crowd. When she finally was, she left her two old best friends who after awhile got fed up with her new attitude and new life. She then got a boyfriend who was also a part of the in crowd. He was one of the more popular kids that people wanted to date. After awhile of being with her new peers she looked up to and admired, she started to go to parties with her boyfriend. She became pressured by her new friends and her and her boyfriend tool their relationship a little bit further. He had been pressuring her to have sex and then would ignore Annie at school. Thats all her new friends talked about was sex and partying. She soon found out what kind of person her boyfriend really was and wanted to stop the relationship, but found it hard to do because she thought she was in love with this kid. She ended up getting pregnant after being raped by her boyfriend. She told him and he beat her and told her that she couldn't tell anyone. He raped her after he beat her again. She felt so alone and felt like her world was coming to an end. Later she went to a group of pregnant teens, and they shared their stories. She made a new friend and later became friends with her old ones again. She decided to keep the baby and see how things would go. After awhile, she didn't really know if she could and ended giving her up to a family who could take care of her.

Teen Pregnancy Pact: The Perfect Storm? Response

I think that this was a very different article. There was two sides to the whole story and that was confusing to what really happened. But.. that article shared some of the drama that is in the real world. I think that the article should have told more about the girls and how they were going to deal with the future. It would be interesting to know what happened after the births. Out of the 17 girls, I wonder what kind of problems with the pregnancies they had with being so young. I think that it was weird how they all were pregnant at the same time or close to it, and how the media got out of the whole thing that there was a pact. Sketchy! I would also like to know what made these teens want to do this and ruin there life in school and enjoy being young. Why would they want to make that irresponsible choice and ruin their childhood? I don't think that it was a very wise decision. I also think that the school didn't have too much to do with it and that the choices were made by these irresponsible individuals.

Teen Pregnancy Pact: The Perfect Storm?

This is a story that was found online about 17 girls from high school in Gloucester Massachusetts. These 17 girls made a pact to become pregnant and raise the babies all at the same time together. It said that this was not one of the first stories that made international headlines. The Perfect Storm was one before. Now they are questioning who was responsible for so many pregnancies. It was said that some people blamed the depressed economy and the demise of its once-thriving fishing industry, some blamed the so-called broken families and directionless youth. It was said that it was Gloucester High brought this problem on itself by providing easy access on-campus day care for the babies of student mothers. Hollywood was said to have some responsibility, the movie Juno was blamed for having an unwed teen mother, and the obsession with teen celebs having babies as accessories. A reproductive specialist noted that the pregnancy trend at Gloucester high began before Juno hit the theaters. Gloucester's mayor said the rate of pregnancies was a statistical "blip" and rued the lack of health education funding. The school superintendent said that he never heard the students use the term pact, and only by the media. After awhile one of the girls was on national television. She was a 17 year old Lindsey Oliver denied that there was a pact. "There was a group of girls already pregnant that decided they were going to help each other to finish school and raise their kids together." "I think that it was a coincidence." she said.

(That is an article that people have posted comments about. Go online and see what other people think!)

Ms. S. comments

Ashley - you have combined your notes and your response into one post. I will let it go this time but remember: Use title of article in your titles, have a post for notes and a post for responses, and remember to color key them correctly.

Teen Interviews Response

I think that these stories are sad for the mother, the family and most of all the baby. The baby did not ask to be brought to the world that early and it may die, or come out with all kinds of problem that may effect it's life forever. This was my favorite information that I have found so far because it was coming from the actual teens themselves and what there advice is to other teens. The actual movie gives more information than the small paragraph provided under the clip.

Teen Interviews!

This post is the most interesting out of the three that I have found so far. This site shows teenage mothers telling something about themselves. If you click on the link, it will take you to the interviews and they may introduce themselves, but on the written information they do not have names. These are small interviews they had with this website... (other information provided in the movie clip.)

First interview. This one individual was mad at herself when she got pregnant. She got kicked out of her moms, and her grandmothers house. She then went to live at her boyfriends house. Her major advice is to stay in school.

Second interview. This girl is a seventeen year old girl. In this interview (see movie clip) she talks about how she was fifteen years old when she got pregnant. (Thats our age now for most of you in this class) She got scared and hid her pregnancy for four months.

Third interview. (no picture provided) This girl is fourteen years old and is NOW six months pregnant. At three months her father skipped out. (not sure what that means exactly) Her mother agreed to help her with the baby and does not believe in abortion. (That can be a good thing and a bad thing. This girl wants to remain anonymous and does not want to reveal her name.

Fourth interview. This girl is a fourteen year old mother, and finds it hard to be in school and be a mother at the same time. Her advice.. is to use some kind of birth control if you are going to have sex.

Hillarys response

Hey Ashley it's nice to see that you are enjoying doing your project and I definitely agree that being a teenage mom is something that must be really hard and you are correct when the teenage girls can have health problems and there are major risks of the baby dying or being premature or having birth defects if not taken care of properly. I'm glad there are institutions and other places that are out there to help teenage moms. Last year I had done a huge project on teenage pregnancy and it's definitely a topic that catches my attention because I learn something new about it all the time. Some teenagers are not smart and don't think and end up getting pregnant unintentionally and there are a lot of girls who have abortions, have miscarriages or end up having health problems or even losing the baby at birth. I wish some teenagers would be more careful and think about what they are doing before something like that happens. I'm sure you'll find out a lot of information on teenage pregnancy and your blog is great and you have good notes and everything. Keep up the good work!