i agree with everything said up above.
im pulling a race card here: would this even be a story if these girls (or the school/neighborhood) were not white? Because these same girls who are looking for love and think having a baby to raise is all fun times and giggles and even get pregnant with their friends to raise babies together--would probably be on Maury and made a spectacle of.
Send them to a bootcamp, a women and children's shelter, scare them straight and see how they feel at the babyshower.
who ARE the boys involved in all this--are they boyfriends, FWBs, random hookups? and seriously, one of the fathers is a homeless man? WTF?? are they all the same guy who thought it would be awesome to be a father to 17 babies at the same time?
and yeah, you go right ahead and blame TV/movies. that'll help.
x 1000. would it have been any better if these girls were ALL in committed, monogamous relationships? or if they had intentions on marrying their babydaddies? but ohhhhhhh, theyre UNWED, theyre lives are sure to be doomed.