US schoolgirls 'make pact to have babies'

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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.

The father of one of the babies was a 24-year-old homeless man, Sullivan told the weekly news magazine.

According to the Boston Globe newspaper, other men "involved in the pregnancies...