"Let's get together and do something our parents will disapprove of!".(The Week)(pregnant teens in Gloucester, Massachusetts)(Brief article)

"Let's get together and do something our parents will disapprove of!" That sentiment has been a staple among groups of giggling teens since, very likely, the Paleolithic Era. Up in Gloucester, Mass., however, it recently seemed that things had gone a bit farther than egging neighborhood cars or smoking in the woods. Seventeen girls at the town high school, none of them older than 16, became pregnant. A normal year's tally would be three or four. Time published a lurid article quoting the school principal to the effect that the girls had formed a pregnancy pact, and that one of the impregnators ...