Middle school girls ARE this bold. As a school disciplinarian, I know this first hand. There is a 13-year-old eighth grade female at my school who is pregnant with her second child. She did not think it could happen while she was breast-feeding. The father of both children is also in eighth grade. The grandmothers are helping to raise the current baby. I recall a time last year when I caught the future parents bumping and grinding at a school dance and spoke with both of them and their parents about this unacceptable school behavior. I silently made my own prediction at the time and found out shortly later that I was correct. Both grandmothers insisted that their children were never unsupervised. What they did not know at the time was they were ditching school and returning to one of their homes having unprotected sex almost daily for weeks without any parent returning phone calls or certified letters regarding attendance.
Parents, I know this may sound cliche, but talk to your kids. This is now the era of D.P.’s (Ditch Parties) which include pharming (NOT a media invention) and oral sex (”because you can’t get pregnant”). These kids may be “stuck in the middle,” but they are not all “Little Miss Sunshine.”
“pharming” as a term may be new, but bartering drugs has been around since there were drugs to barter. My roommate in college had a legal prescription for birth control pills. She never used them. She sold them: five at a time to girls who thought they might be pregnant. You took one a day for five days then quit. If you didn’t get your period it was not a good sign… The difference seems to be the age of these children… childhood is shorter now than when we were kids.
From the article: “I’m sure that many parents see these routines as healthy fun, an exercise in self-esteem harmlessly heightened by glitter makeup and teeny skirts.”
WTF, some parents ARE stupid. The only thing surprising in these two articles is that parents would find “intercourse dancing” to be acceptable at either a school dance or a school talent show. Un-fuckin-believeable.
-Rob