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US schoolgirls 'make pact to have babies'
AFP, June, 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP) — A group of US schoolgirls in the Massachusetts fishing town of Gloucester made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together, a report has said.
Time magazine reported Thursday that 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies "more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year."
"Nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together," Joseph Sullivan, principal of the high school in the fishing and beach town told Time.
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