Adoption Blog in Month in Review: June, Part Two

I reflect on my co-blogger Lyn’s blog in the Education Blog about teen-age girls making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Teen mothers who plan adoption for their babies are less likely to go on welfare than those who parent as teens. Unfortunately, most mothers choosing adoption are young adults—teenagers often decide to parent. Of course, some teen moms do a fine job—but these girls will quickly realize it’s no lark. My blog Wild Horses Couldn’t Drag Me Away from You cautions that some doctors’ and dentists’ comments and policies regarding keeping parents out can be … Continue reading

Pregnancy Pact is Preposterous

My fellow blogger Lyn just posted a piece in the Education Blog about teenage girls at one high school making a “pregnancy pact”. When I started to read this blog I had a faint hope that she was talking about the kind of “virginity pledge”, “chastity rings” or “True Love Waits” Campaign vows. But deep inside I suspected she wasn’t. That suspicion was right. This blog is about high school girls making a pledge to get pregnant and have their babies together. The girls seemed thrilled when they got pregnant, which nearly twenty of them have done. I guess we … Continue reading