Finally!!! Someone Got It Right!! _ Commentary on the Gloucester pregnancies...- The ideology of teen pregnancy

Christopher Caldwell says it very well in this article I found. An excerpt follows..."It may flatter our self-regard to believe that the modern, western pattern of child-bearing arises from superior knowledge and sophistication, but it does not. It arises from our priorities. The Gloucester pregnancies are not about information the girls don’t have. They are about an argument the girls don’t buy. It is a fool’s errand to try to convince a girl that bearing a child is “sad” (a word used with appalling frequency in press accounts) or to argue that last year’s hit movie Juno leads girls astray by glamorising pregnancy. (Apparently glamorising sex is all right, especially if it serves some transcendent purpose such as selling shampoo, but glamorising motherhood crosses the line.)"