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Teen fakes pregnancy for school assignment.

Sure it does. The above response to which you quoted proves it. Also, this isn't some college class experiment for a psyc class or something, this was a High School Senior.

Inappropiate at best IMHO.

j-mac

Why is it less appropriate than a college class? Hispanic girls and black girls are the most likely to become pregnant before the turn 18. They are also the two groups to be most negatively affected by pregnancy, less likely to finish high school, more likely to live in poverty, more likely to see their children repeat the same patterns.

This girl went into the thick of things in a very responsible way, when you consider the alternative. She's working with abstinence and sex education programs to try and find solutions to a growing problem, according to one article I read. I don't see many teenagers in her generation with the drive, creativity, or ambition to create and implement a plan so grand and detailed as this. Is it controversial? Absolutely. Is it going to bring about the downfall of society? It may actually slow it, in the long run.
 
The means wasn't that bad in the first place, and the end was quite interesting.

Justifying it? Ok, where's the line?

And why is it okay for a college student, and not a high school student?

At least in college there wouldn't have to be parental, and Principal authorization to carry out the deception.

I'm proud of someone doing something creative, and actually thinking outside the box.

It doesn't take too much creativity to lie.

No one was harmed, no problem.

How do you know? Do you know the instance, and all the individuals involved personally?

j-mac
 
Justifying it? Ok, where's the line?

Depends, life isn't black and white


At least in college there wouldn't have to be parental, and Principal authorization to carry out the deception.

What does this have to do with anything?

It doesn't take too much creativity to lie.

This isn't lying just to lie, this was an experiment.

How do you know? Do you know the instance, and all the individuals involved personally?

j-mac

Where did it mention that someone was harmed in the article?
 
Note carefully - her mother, boyfriend and school principle DID know it was a hoax for 'research'

But regardless - I wouldn't tolerate lying FOR my child like the Mom did - I wouldn't put up with the humiliation and scrutiny of FAKING a pregnancy.

I think what they've done is horrendous - ESPECIALLY because they ruined the boyfriend's good family name through this - the boyfriends parents *didn't know* - Imagine the emotional trauma they went through.

What a bunch of bull**** - how unbelievably ridiculous that they let her do it. many of girls are REALLY pregnant and can tell you all about it if someone really wants ot know that badly.

I suppose her next senior project is going to study how everyone treats her upon learning she lied to them?

I wonder what she has planned after that....a book deal?
 
Why is it less appropriate than a college class? Hispanic girls and black girls are the most likely to become pregnant before the turn 18. They are also the two groups to be most negatively affected by pregnancy, less likely to finish high school, more likely to live in poverty, more likely to see their children repeat the same patterns.

This girl went into the thick of things in a very responsible way, when you consider the alternative. She's working with abstinence and sex education programs to try and find solutions to a growing problem, according to one article I read. I don't see many teenagers in her generation with the drive, creativity, or ambition to create and implement a plan so grand and detailed as this. Is it controversial? Absolutely. Is it going to bring about the downfall of society? It may actually slow it, in the long run.


Look, everyone is blowing out of proportion what I am getting at. If the girl went into this in a "responsible" way, then why this part of the article?

"It was tough for all of us,” Orozco said. “We lied to a lot of people. A lot of people were upset when they found out."

Think of it like this, you and I are friends for some time, and as an experiment you tell me that you have been diagnosed with cancer. Now as a friend that cares about you, I am upset for the entire time period that you keep up this "fib".... Then you tell me it was all not true, and was for some experiment you were doing. I'd be pretty upset with you as well.

j-mac
 
Look, everyone is blowing out of proportion what I am getting at. If the girl went into this in a "responsible" way, then why this part of the article?



Think of it like this, you and I are friends for some time, and as an experiment you tell me that you have been diagnosed with cancer. Now as a friend that cares about you, I am upset for the entire time period that you keep up this "fib".... Then you tell me it was all not true, and was for some experiment you were doing. I'd be pretty upset with you as well.

j-mac

Okay, but let's be real. Cancer and pregnancy are two very, very different things.
 
Okay, but let's be real. Cancer and pregnancy are two very, very different things.

At teen age years, not that far apart....But why do you see them as so different that it is ok to lie about one, but the other is different enough that you possibly see my point?

j-mac
 
Look, everyone is blowing out of proportion what I am getting at. If the girl went into this in a "responsible" way, then why this part of the article?

Think of it like this, you and I are friends for some time, and as an experiment you tell me that you have been diagnosed with cancer. Now as a friend that cares about you, I am upset for the entire time period that you keep up this "fib".... Then you tell me it was all not true, and was for some experiment you were doing. I'd be pretty upset with you as well.

j-mac

To be fair, I would be pretty pissed if one of my friends told me she was pregnant and then she wasn't. I would probably be pretty embarrassed too since I would have likely been kind to her and possibly bought her things. I would have felt emotionally manipulated and angry. However, I'd probably get over it since I like the idea.

I think the problem people had with your first comments was that you seemed to be putting yourself on a moral pedestal with your "I would never let my kids lie" and what not. Nonetheless, I agree with you that people likely were hurt, but I don't think those negative effects cancel out the positives particularly since I think most people will get over it since the girl didn't do it out of malice.
 
At teen age years, not that far apart....But why do you see them as so different that it is ok to lie about one, but the other is different enough that you possibly see my point?

j-mac

I see your point, I just don't agree with it. Lying may be necessary in some instances for a multitude of reasons. A spy cannot reveal his destination to his family or he risks his life and theirs. Soliders may not reveal their deployment locations to their families for the safety of all of the troops. People have to lie sometimes for safety.

Again, sometimes lying is necessary for an experiment to have a reliable result. In medical studies you aren't told whether or not you're receiving the drug or a placebo. That's a form of lying.

You can take a holier-than-thou approach to lying, but I swear to you, everybody lies. Wouldn't you rather that the lie be for some benefit, such as in this case? This girl didn't do this with malcious intent. She had a goal and a purpose, to investigate and turn results into solutions and programs to solve a growing problem.

So I guess it comes down to what you value most, an impossible dictate about lying, or doing whatever you can think of to come up with solutions to far worse problems.
 
To be fair, I would be pretty pissed if one of my friends told me she was pregnant and then she wasn't. I would probably be pretty embarrassed too since I would have likely been kind to her and possibly bought her things. I would have felt emotionally manipulated and angry. However, I'd probably get over it since I like the idea.

I think the problem people had with your first comments was that you seemed to be putting yourself on a moral pedestal with your "I would never let my kids lie" and what not. Nonetheless, I agree with you that people likely were hurt, but I don't think those negative effects cancel out the positives particularly since I think most people will get over it since the girl didn't do it out of malice.


Yeah, I can see that, and thanks. I didn't mean to make it as though I thought I am so better than anyone else here, I guess trying to translate thought into type isn't always easy. And Lord knows I ain't perfect. I was just trying to put myself in the place of one of the dupes of the excercise.

j-mac
 
I see your point, I just don't agree with it. Lying may be necessary in some instances for a multitude of reasons. A spy cannot reveal his destination to his family or he risks his life and theirs. Soliders may not reveal their deployment locations to their families for the safety of all of the troops. People have to lie sometimes for safety.

Again, sometimes lying is necessary for an experiment to have a reliable result. In medical studies you aren't told whether or not you're receiving the drug or a placebo. That's a form of lying.

You can take a holier-than-thou approach to lying, but I swear to you, everybody lies. Wouldn't you rather that the lie be for some benefit, such as in this case? This girl didn't do this with malcious intent. She had a goal and a purpose, to investigate and turn results into solutions and programs to solve a growing problem.

So I guess it comes down to what you value most, an impossible dictate about lying, or doing whatever you can think of to come up with solutions to far worse problems.

I guess what I am saying is really more a question.

Was this experiment, which I might remind you was in a High School setting, worth upsetting people?

j-mac
 
I guess what I am saying is really more a question.

Was this experiment, which I might remind you was in a High School setting, worth upsetting people?

j-mac

To me, yes. As far as the timeframe and location of the events, I'm not sure what you remember about high school, but what this girl did is absolute peanuts in comparison to things I saw, did, heard, or read about, from, and to the other kids I went to school with.

Also, in so far as the actions themselves, I see it this way: extreme acts make breakthroughs, safe acts make operations manuals. We can survey and document statistics all day, but that's all we're doing. We've been proving over and over again that abstinance education doesn't work, we refuse to expand our minds and allow broad-reaching sex ed to take place, some cultures are encouraging and pressuring their young women into having babies during their teen years, and we're adding to the welfare and under-educated laborer roles at an alarming rate when we do nothing to curb teen pregnancy. SOMEBODY needs to do SOMETHING affective. Maybe diving in the trenches will help provide insight we haven't yet garnered, maybe having that experience will help her reach out to at-risk girls. Maybe she will help others learn something about themselves and about the problem.

As far as upsetting people goes, I said before and I'll say again, "You're only upset by something if you allow yourself to be". No, it isn't cool to do something to intentionally hurt somebody. But if them being hurt is an unfortunately result you cannot always let that deter you. My boyfriend's family (and mine) would be extremely hurt if I broke up with him, but if we weren't happy and knew the relationship needed to end then it would have to end.

"Do what you know to be right and ask forgiveness from those who disagree later."
 
To me, yes. As far as the timeframe and location of the events, I'm not sure what you remember about high school, but what this girl did is absolute peanuts in comparison to things I saw, did, heard, or read about, from, and to the other kids I went to school with.

Also, in so far as the actions themselves, I see it this way: extreme acts make breakthroughs, safe acts make operations manuals. We can survey and document statistics all day, but that's all we're doing. We've been proving over and over again that abstinance education doesn't work, we refuse to expand our minds and allow broad-reaching sex ed to take place, some cultures are encouraging and pressuring their young women into having babies during their teen years, and we're adding to the welfare and under-educated laborer roles at an alarming rate when we do nothing to curb teen pregnancy. SOMEBODY needs to do SOMETHING affective. Maybe diving in the trenches will help provide insight we haven't yet garnered, maybe having that experience will help her reach out to at-risk girls. Maybe she will help others learn something about themselves and about the problem.

As far as upsetting people goes, I said before and I'll say again, "You're only upset by something if you allow yourself to be". No, it isn't cool to do something to intentionally hurt somebody. But if them being hurt is an unfortunately result you cannot always let that deter you. My boyfriend's family (and mine) would be extremely hurt if I broke up with him, but if we weren't happy and knew the relationship needed to end then it would have to end.

"Do what you know to be right and ask forgiveness from those who disagree later."


Ok...So is there a link to this absolutely necessary study? Something we can link to and read for the insights, and new information it may contain? Hell, it may change Sex ed for the world!

So link it up, and let us have a peek, I am more than interested to see it now...

j-mac
 
Ok...So is there a link to this absolutely necessary study? Something we can link to and read for the insights, and new information it may contain? Hell, it may change Sex ed for the world!

So link it up, and let us have a peek, I am more than interested to see it now...

j-mac

There's this:
* Black women have the highest teen pregnancy rate (134 per 1,000 women ages 15–19), followed by Hispanics (131 per 1,000) and non-Hispanic whites (48 per 1,000).
* The pregnancy rate among black teens decreased 40% between 1990 and 2000 compared to an overall national decline in teen pregnancy rate of 36%.

To View this Resource: Facts on American Teens' Sexual and Reproductive Health


Also this:
In 2009, a total of 409,840 infants were born to 15−19 year olds, for a live birth rate of 39.1 per 1,000 women in this age group.1 Nearly two-thirds of births to women younger than age 18 and more than half of those among 18−19 year olds are unintended.

And this:
http://www.prcdc.org/files/Latina_Teen_Pregnancy.pdf (Too much text to copy/paste)

There's a pretty big problem with hispanic teens and pregnancies. This girl went to a school with an 85% hispanic population. The likelihood is that many of those girls will become pregnant before they reach 18. Perhaps her "inside story" without the baby will help? Then again, perhaps not...but I'd rather her try and fail than not try at all.
 
This may have already been pointed out but I love this quote by Gaby's mother "It's nothing but positive from here on out." Ya sure about that Big Mama?:roll::2razz:

BTW, I feel she could have at least let the boyfriends parents in on the big lie out of respect. But that is just me.
 
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I faked pregnancy for a school assignment but it got nowhere fast. I'm glad she had better luck with it.
 
That's pretty awesome, she did a great job, and in the spirit of the internetz:

successful_troll.jpg
 
That's pretty awesome, she did a great job, and in the spirit of the internetz:

successful_troll.jpg

I learned how to post pictures by replying to you and discovering your secret code. I could have made the best fake pregnant person EVER! People would be all "look at that pregnant person. I'll bet the baby will be beautiful."
 
There's this:
* Black women have the highest teen pregnancy rate (134 per 1,000 women ages 15–19), followed by Hispanics (131 per 1,000) and non-Hispanic whites (48 per 1,000).
* The pregnancy rate among black teens decreased 40% between 1990 and 2000 compared to an overall national decline in teen pregnancy rate of 36%.

To View this Resource: Facts on American Teens' Sexual and Reproductive Health


Also this:
In 2009, a total of 409,840 infants were born to 15−19 year olds, for a live birth rate of 39.1 per 1,000 women in this age group.1 Nearly two-thirds of births to women younger than age 18 and more than half of those among 18−19 year olds are unintended.

And this:
http://www.prcdc.org/files/Latina_Teen_Pregnancy.pdf (Too much text to copy/paste)

There's a pretty big problem with hispanic teens and pregnancies. This girl went to a school with an 85% hispanic population. The likelihood is that many of those girls will become pregnant before they reach 18. Perhaps her "inside story" without the baby will help? Then again, perhaps not...but I'd rather her try and fail than not try at all.


I am not disputing that, or those studies....I want to see this girls study that this stunt produced. You seem to think that it is the be all and end all in all of sexual education studies ever. So, produce it so we can see the magnificence of its splendor, and how worth it it all was to upset the people she did with this....

j-mac
 
Okay...

1. everybody lies.
2. her actions could lead to valuable insight and (at least for her) a better understanding of young girls in that situation.
3. if a teen pregnancy ruins an entire family's "good name" then so be it; it's a town full of judgmental idiots, then.
4. i really, really don't see the big deal here.

Don't we have plenty of girls that are really in that situation to ask?
 
I am not disputing that, or those studies....I want to see this girls study that this stunt produced. You seem to think that it is the be all and end all in all of sexual education studies ever. So, produce it so we can see the magnificence of its splendor, and how worth it it all was to upset the people she did with this....

j-mac

HER study is not finished. I never said this will be the "be all, end all" of sex ed studies. I said what she's doing is creative and unique and worth considering when our only widely accepted methods of preventing teen pregnancy AREN'T working.
 
Note carefully - her mother, boyfriend and school principle DID know it was a hoax for 'research'

But regardless - I wouldn't tolerate lying FOR my child like the Mom did - I wouldn't put up with the humiliation and scrutiny of FAKING a pregnancy.

I think what they've done is horrendous - ESPECIALLY because they ruined the boyfriend's good family name through this - the boyfriends parents *didn't know* - Imagine the emotional trauma they went through.

What a bunch of bull**** - how unbelievably ridiculous that they let her do it. many of girls are REALLY pregnant and can tell you all about it if someone really wants ot know that badly.

Only thing wrong about this is that the boyfriend's parents didn't know the truth. That was a horrible decision to make. I blame her mom and the principal for that part of it, though. They should have known better than to put other parents through the mill like that. I'm kind of ho-hum about the brilliance part. Girls have been lying about being pregnant forever. The fact that she's being chased by morning shows is a pretty good reason why I don't watch them. Maybe she'll write a book. Or a great Master's thesis. As for the standing ovation, kids will applaud anything.

Hopefully, the boyfriend did tell his parents on the QT. That part was just plain mean.
 
I am not disputing that, or those studies....I want to see this girls study that this stunt produced. You seem to think that it is the be all and end all in all of sexual education studies ever. So, produce it so we can see the magnificence of its splendor, and how worth it it all was to upset the people she did with this....

j-mac

A lot of psychology studies (which I'm not saying this one is, it seems to be just a school project) involve lying to the participants - if we tell them what we want to know, it would likely cause some bias in the studies. Or Medical studies - we don't give placebo to subjects and tell them that it's placebo. Some psychology studies will also upset some people because of the nature of the experiment. I say a lot of those experiments are worth it to advance our knowledge.

To teach your children to never lie is a disadvantage to them. Sometimes lying is kinder than telling the truth and sometimes it's neccesary and a lesser evil. Better to teach them to learn right from wrong, so they know when it's okay to lie and when it's not.
 
Don't we have plenty of girls that are really in that situation to ask?

People don't seem to care about what those girls have to say, it takes a "stunt" to get people's attention.
 
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