They are still children themselves so it's unfair to judge them too harshly.

I think we fail our children by expecting them to live in a fast-paced, celebrity-obsessed world without giving them the tools to make responsible decisions.

This is why it's really important to give children, at a young age, good sex education. I've always believed in "citizenship" education too, based on teaching that each action has a consequence. We have got some fantastic young people on this planet, but we're neglecting to pass on our experience and knowledge to them and instead are alienating a lot of them.

I hope all goes well for all of them, and their children.

emm said:

I have to wonder what in the world their sex ed consisted of before...

"GET PREGNANT OR YOU WILL DIE!"

horatio said:

daamn

That QUALITY U.S. education at work.

Graycap23 said:

You can't just sum it up as that being the problem. It's a combination of poor education, absent parenting (for whatever reason) and horrible media images being rammed down kid's throats.

And this kind of behaviour goes way beyond lack of good sex education. There is an epidemic where are children are growing up without good parental guidance and most important of all - love.

I'm waiting for some fool to blame this hot mess on movies, TV, videogames and hip-hop(instead of sh!tty parents). You know it's coming.

my friends and i just made the same pact! though we are having problems getting preggers.

uPtoWnNY said:

I think this one boils down 2 sheer individual ignorance....

When I first heard a snip-it on the radio on this subject, I was hoping it was an Urband Legend, guess not.

ehuffnsd said:

that word makes me want hurl

eikonoklastes said:

haha you da man

wow these girls fail at life

InsatiableCream said:

hi myle

sextonseven said:

It is I heard it on the news as well they also said that one girl was out of the pact they made casue she went to the school nurse and her pregnancy test result was negative

Who cares about these dimwits...

This is so scary to think that girls are still feeling the need to go this route for acceptance and love. And to think of this new generation they are bringing into the world, how dysfuntional their lives are going to be.

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rasplicious said:

uPtoWnNY said:

Done and done. I've seen reports on this placing the blame squarely on Juno and Jamie Lynn Spears.

Everytime I see a report of something like this, I feel more and more disconnected with today's youth.....and I'm 23. Shit like this was unheard of even when I was in high school.

oh btw, i don't see how this is news

meow85 said:

I feel the same way.

How could a pact like this be made in this day and age of HIV and AIDS?????

meow85 said:

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damn...

I knew things were changing with kids today, but I never realized
there was such a drastic difference of perspective just within 5 years of age.

In a (sort of) unrelated story though, this reminds me a liitle bit of a fictional film by director Sion Sono called "Jiatsu Circle", about teenage girl cliques in Japan who commit waves of mass suicide as a way out and final solution from lives of monotonous, societal conformity. The story, opening with 54 school girls keeping a secret pact by jumping in front of a train- is waaaay out there. But the story is compelling in how it examines teenage issues like isolation, angst, mass consumerism and desire to be noticed and fit in, etc. etc.

meow85 said:

It's our generation that is to blame - not them. We're the ones that are raising them - and extremely poorly I must add. They are a product of 'us'.

horatio said:

your true colors show, especially when you troll and bait with homophobic comment. Your a real winner.

Even in the lowest moments of our lives, my friends and I would NEVER do something like this. I mean, shit, we cussed and drank a little. We cried but we ALWAYS HAD ONE ANOTHER. This is just..wow. There's no justification in this. There is a lot, no, a TON that goes into having a baby. And I know these girls aren't thinking. None of them are ready. This is a cry for help and shame on them and their parents both. I know some peeps want to coin it up to Jamie Lynn Spears (one reporter in Chicago tried to make that connection) but it's all on the parents for not watching their kids more closely and the kids for not thinking more clearly about the choices they've made. I cannot believe this, and I heard this story like two days ago.
Even if they are children, they should be able to figure out right from wrong. Seriously. I'm only 22 my darn self, but at that age I wasn't even thinking about sex or babies. Sure babies were great to hold, but, I was way more interested in anime and writing a novel. I played video games and made good grades at that age. I knew having a baby let alone sex was o-u-t. And society then and now has only been tweaked so much. It seems that the lack of harsh judgment in this case is what possibly led these girls to think that their parents would probably either help them out lots or give them some sort of adult freedom. My father never did that. He kept me on lockdown and taught me lots of things for me to base my adult life on. He took the time to guide me and set me right so that I wouldn't end up doing something like this. I went to school with girls who got pregnant and they had a hard time with everything. I ended up having to help a lot of them Senior year. I did that because I felt they were wonderful girls who didn't deserve to suffer. Just like these girls, they needed /felt like they needed some sort of love from a new person. It changed their lives and a lot of them didn't even get to experience college after graduation. With a baby, they had to set their time and also get better jobs. The justification stops at the fact that they are children having babies of their own. I'd cut them more slack if it had not been known they actually got upset when they weren't pregnant at first. The entire idea of them trying is what really bothers me. They kept trying.
I made pacts with my friends to meet 10 years from now. I made pacts to keep in touch. To go to a Cubs game and eat hot dogs around the Silver Bean in Millenium Park. We made pacts not to get some guy's name tattooed on our butts! We never went as far as these young things have gone. And I guess that's where our generations differ a great deal.

Their parents should be slapped.

THAT'S WHY THE MOVIE JUNOSHOULD BE RATED R!!!
KIDS WATCH IT AND GET CRAZY.....