Beantown Bloggery picked up on a Time magazine article in which 17 teenage girls, 4 times the number as the previous year, at Gloucester High School were found to have made a pregnancy pact and to want to raise their children together. The article explains:

All it took was a few simple questions before nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Then the story got worse. "We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy," said principal Joseph Sullivan.

Some girls described the desire to give birth to something that unconditionally loves them. Other observers wonder if the in-school daycare and strollers mingling with students in the hallways might be presenting the wrong impression of teen pregnancy.