Do you remember the big ho-ha this summer about those Massachusetts teens who supposedly had a 'pregnancy pact'? It was a big deal at first but now that they're giving birth the spotlight's somewhere else, which is typical of this country.
Bitterness aside check out this really thoughtful article in Boston Mag with a follow up of some of the girls who were and one girl who isn't pregnant. It's kind of heartbreaking cause it make the point that these poor girls basically had nothing to lose by giving birth so early. Economically, socially and educationally they were already at the ass end of the gravy train. And since the great majority of them have little or no family life to begin with, what they did have to gain was a new family.
It's another long one but interesting.
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