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As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies — more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year. [...] 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.

a sudden baby boom among students at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts, which Time Magazine says is apparently no coincidence:

It is unlikely that cultural depictions of teen pregnancy - most notably the movie "Juno" and the pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears, which have been said to glamorize teenage pregnancy - can explain the racial disparity in teenage pregnancy rates. Only when we begin to move away from simplistic explanations for complicated situations can the problem of teen pregnancy be accurately discussed and properly solved for all our communities.