Hey, remember that pregnancy pact at Gloucester High School? You know, where everyone thought some Gloucester teens made a pact to get pregnant, but really they just all got pregnant at the same time (one of them by a homeless man!) and made a pact to raise the babies together? And Time magazine said it happened because of opposition to abortion, and others said it was because Gloucester is crumbling, and it was a big uproar for a while but has now disappeared except presumably there are still babies being raised by teens as a result? Anyway, Lifetime made a movie about the whole mess, and it premieres Saturday night, starring Thora Birch and Camryn Manheim. If this wasn't a sign of the apocalypse, this movie surely is. Even the poster does a good job of summarizing some of what was wrong with the situation, like the boys who impregnated the girls playing no role and just sort of sitting in the background looking dumb, and adults either being totally absent in the sea of pregnant girls or completely missing the important point: that kids really don't need to get pregnant and have children while they're still in high school. Let's just hope that the moral of the Lifetime movie isn't that everyone should be a Teen Mom.
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Much like a baby, it just won't shut up. The Gloucester pregnancy pact debate is as persistent as baby puke stains. Gloucester is clearly not Europe; it's apparent that pregnancies are on the rise there. But now Time has backed away from its pregnancy pact theory and is now suggesting that anti-abortion sentiment is the reason for the baby season. Nancy Gibbs writes:
Seventeen students (out of 1200) at Gloucester High are pregnant; that's more than four times the number of pregnancies reported last year. The health center administered a staggering 150 pregnancy tests over the past school year. Assuming half the students in the school are girls, that figure represents a quarter of the school's female population.
Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by...
Lance Morrow teaches a class at BU on "The American Presidency", and it's one of those classes that is always talked about and whispered about and a hot ticket for a semester. Bostonist has had the pleasure of having Mr. Morrow in class and he's an insightful and fascinating guy, one of those teachers who has stories to tell. When he's not teaching at BU, he writes cover stories, essays, and book reviews for Time Magazine and he's published several books. Tonight he's talking about his latest book, The Best Year Of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948: Learning The Secrets Of Power. This book has already recieved strong reviews in The Boston Globe and The New York Times, and it should be an incisive look at three future presidents as young congressmen in 1948 and how these events shaped their rise to power. Superficially, it's kind of like that WB show Jack and Bobby. Morrow is a lively writer, who, if Bostonist remembers correctly "has had dinner with all the presidents" and he should be giving a great talk. So go to 5th floor of the BU Barnes and Noble (under the Citgo sign) at 7PM and learn about the American presidency for free!