Re: Pregnancy Pact
Posted by Elyse90505 on 6/26/08
Honestly - these girls were lacking a brain when they made
this pact.
However, it isn't the media or "pop culture" that is to
blame. It is the parents and the girls. Why didn't the
parents talk to their kids more? Why weren't the girls
educated? And why were the girls so clueless as to how hard
it is to raise a baby?
Maybe it is just because I am from Los Angeles, and I went to
high school and college with a few girls who actually ended
up pregnant by "accident". Maybe because I saw what it does
to a person first hand that I find it so ridiculous that
these girls thought it would be easy.
Honestly - the media is talking about how movies
like "Knocked Up" and "Juno" make pregnancy look easy. The
bottom line is that those sort of things do sometimes happen -
people get pregnant without expecting it (Whether it is
right or not is not for this part of the discussion). But
the movies don't make it look easy. If anything - it makes
it look horrible. Who wants to throw up everywhere, have
people snicker at you in the hall ways, deal with horrible
doctors and have fights with your parents, friends, and
father of the baby. And the poor girl in "Juno" had to face
the reality of giving up her baby - and if that last scene
with her crying in the hospital isn't enough to make a person
realize how real it is - then maybe these girls don't have
the mental capacity to be in high school.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Pregnancy Pact, 6/23/08, by The Apprentice.
- Re: Pregnancy Pact, 6/26/08, by Elyse90505.
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