High School Pregnancy Pact

Walking out of the theater after seeing Juno a few months back, I heard one young girl coo to her friend, "Oh I want to have a baby now!" So I guess it's not that surprising to find out about the rash of pregnancies at a high school in Gloucester, MA:

School officials started looking into the matter as early as October after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant. By May, several students had returned multiple times to get pregnancy tests, and on hearing the results, "some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Sullivan says. 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," the principal says, shaking his head.

You can't blame the media. Don't these girls have parents? My mother would have kicked my ass if I'd been involved in something that stupid.

Edited to add: Gloucester's mayor says there's no evidence that the 17 pregnancies are the result of a pact.