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Old 01-17-2011, 02:29 PM   #28
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Re: Memphis High School Dealing with Pregnancy Boom

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Originally Posted by firstdown View Post
Shame is probably not the correct word but it seems now days people seem to think its just Ok for a 16 yr olds to be getting knocked up. I don't think we need to go back to the days when we would ship our daughter off for 9 months but they need to know that getting knocked up at a young age is wrong. When I was in high school maybe one or two girls got preg. and were seen kind of like out cast. That probably is not totally right but it seemed to work. All I know as we have made it more acceptable the problem has become much worse. That goes for allot of things with teens now days.
Yeah call it what you want, but I remember the one girl that got pregnant while I was in high school was derided and ostracized from her social circle. Shame, derision, whatever. There's no stronger force for a teenager than his/her peers thinking poorly of them. If the kids think it's actually cool to be pregnant in high school then they're all in trouble.
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