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I don't know you all. This doesn't seem like it's a case where the girls didn't know how babies were made and got pregnant by accident. Whether they could get contraceptives at the school doesn't seem to be the real issue when people are actively trying to get pregnant although if that's your agenda 17 pregnancies might theoretically help you make your case.
I'll admit that all my knowledge of Gloucester is limited to reading The Perfect Storm, but I think that for some families the economic circumstances are bleak enough that they don't see having the baby as hurting their futures. I think life is pretty sucky even without the boot camp.
And I think that the coverage is different, maybe partially because of race, but mainly because they have evidence that the girls got together and all deliberately decided to get pregnant, not accidentally got pregnant because they were teenage idiots who didn't think normal reproductive biology applied to them, which is how the media seems to want to sell it usually. To me too it seems like a really different case.
It sounded to me like they might be looking to prosecute some of the daddies. I doubt their finding out that one dad was a 24 year old homeless guy was purely for recreation.
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