The USA Today article linked above says, "This is not a story about sex education... This is a story about a failure to take childbirth seriously. These girls could have had condoms distributed in their living rooms, and they still would have gotten pregnant."

Perhaps sex education is and can be a part of the solution. Sex education can and should cover not just HOW to avoid pregnancy, but WHY to avoid it. My impression is that good sex education programs actually do focus some time on the this question of WHY to avoid teen pregnacy. They just need to do it more, and of course these messages need to be part of a larger national conversation, not just something only covered in the classroom.

Taking childbirth seriously is the basis for some good social experimentation. Take that show Baby Borrowers - these teens are responsible enough to know that they are not prepared to have children, so they look after someone else's kids to prepare and test themselves

Well, or those kids just want to be on tv... But, I do give NBC kudos for trying to send a message on the subject, and if it helps just a few teens, great.

I do not believe that this is fiction. These girls apparently have too much time on their hands and have not considered the consequences that await them for planning their pregnancies. They are in for a rude awakening because raising a child is no joke. They are so selfish to be putting this burden on themselves and on their parents. You know that their parents will be ones to suffer most because they were suppose to be done raising children and now they will have a newborn in their home whom they will probably be expected to take care of most of the time. They should throw the teens out the house to get a taste of the real world and what it would be like to raise a baby on their own. I heard that one one so desperate to get pregnant that she slept with a homeless man. I pray that these girls get help and get tested for a venereal disease.