“Gloucester Girls” Explode Myths About Teen Pregnancy
Carol Platt Liebau has this commentary on Townhall. She writes:
There was something sweetly naïve about the shock elicited by news out of Gloucester, Massachusetts that a group of 17 girls, no older than 16, may have had a pact to get pregnant together. But what was, perhaps, most remarkable about the story was just how completely it explodes two of the most widely-purveyed social myths about young women and pregnancy.
Myth 1: Girls wouldn’t get pregnant if they just had access to birth control, and knew how to use it . . .
Myth 2: Girls wouldn’t get pregnant if they weren’t poor and “hopeless.” . . .