TheOwl opened this issue on Apr 22, 2011 · 17 posts
RobynsVeil posted Fri, 22 April 2011 at 5:55 PM
The article said that it was part of a social experiment:
"Only a handful of people - her mother, boyfriend and principal among them - knew Gaby was pretending to be pregnant for her senior project, a culminating assignment required for graduation."
Personally, I think she's quite courageous: teen pregnancies is a fact of life, unfortunately, and those unfortunates who make those bad (well, unreflected) decisions are marginalised and ostracised for a mistake (poor decision) whist the other half of the equation rarely stands by them or wears any of the consequences of this.
I'm surprised you "don't get it". If you read the article, the purpose and motive is pretty clear. I guess it's hard to understand for someone who has never been marginalised why a person would voluntarily place him-or-herself in that position.
And your feeling that this is attention-seeking is typical of most people's views of teenagers. :blink: Have another read of the article... with your more charitable glasses on, this time.
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