The Pregnancy Pact

This Saturday Lifetime premiered their new original movie, The Pregnancy Pact. The Pregnancy Pact is based on a true story about the rapid rate of teens getting pregnant in a small high school in Massachusetts. Apparently, several girls from the school made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. After, Time Magazine got the inside scoop and posted an article confirming the pact turmoil and chaos surrounded the families of the pregnant young teens. The families were pressed by the media and the teens were forced to face reality and the consequences of their decisions.
While watching the movie I could not fathom the idea of why teens the same age as me would set their goals to getting pregnant at such a young age. As a sixteen year old the only thoughts running through my head is surviving the work overload in high school and practicing parallel parking. It really shocked me that girls my age would make a pact to all have children together, without thinking long term of having a father figure in the picture or a stable future without support on welfare.
The movie made it seem that the first girl in the click to get pregnant, accidentally, was the ring-leader of the group and initiated the preposterous pact. The peer-pressure and influence the girl had over her other friends in the click led them to believe a fantasy world where having children at sixteen was the best decision in life. Overall, I feel as though the movie really demonstrates how peer pressure in high school is so strong and can influence students to make the wrong decisions in life. Even though, intentionally getting pregnant is the last thing on most sixteen year old’s minds peer pressure can make it seem like it’s the right or “cool” thing to do. It disappoints me that over peer pressure and false sense of security young girls were influenced to make the wrong decision that will affect them for the rest of their lives.