Monday, June 23, 2008

What about the baby daddies?

Hmm -- the four most popular stories on Time.com last week were about teen sex, elder sex, gay sex, and iPhone sex -- interesting (any marketers or advertisers out there who want to target Time.com's readers, well, now you know what they like to read).

Regarding this story, "Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High" about the teens in Gloucester, Mass. -- if you hadn't heard, 17 school girls made a pact to all get pregnant at the same time -- why does the story hardly make mention of the young men involved? It'd be a different story if the girls were artificially inseminated but they weren't inseminated, they were done the old fashioned way by willing high school boys or in other cases perhaps by local young men. They certainly have a role in this pact as well -- especially if any of the men are legal adults who did this with these underaged girls. Why is it really going missed by the media coverage? Getting pregnant is not an independent decision any more than it is an independent act. So who are the baby daddies?

If this wasn't this small fishing town of Gloucester, Mass., if this was maybe Newark, NJ or Compton, CA, then would the focus change? Would the blame game change? How do I address that without playing victim? I just think this story is odd for more reasons than what the reporters are describing.

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