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What would you do if your teenage daughter announced that she had deliberately become pregnant? This book is a mess, a train wreck that I really didn’t want to watch. This is a story is of hurt and betrayal by close friends, family, and trusted colleagues when a group of teenagers become pregnant. The mothers of the girls are unfairly held accountable for their daughters’ “pregnancy pact”. I did not like this book. I did not respect or even admire the characters. I thought it was hurtful to read and I didn’t enjoy it. I could hardly finish it. Susan Tate became pregnant as a teenager and refused to marry the father. She was disowned by her family and struggled to go to school and raise her daughter alone. She successfully became a teacher and then a much respected high school principal. She has a very close relationship with her daughter Lily and several best friends and even sees Lily’s father occasionally. It’s a good life and Susan has been a good role model for her daughter. However, Lily hasn’t witnessed the problems and disgrace of raising a child out of wedlock and wants to have a child the way her mother did. Lily announces that she desperately wants a baby and has deliberately become pregnant at the beginning of her senior year. The situation snowballs as two of her friends announce pregnancies too. Last summer, the girls decided it would be cool to have babies together and formed a pregnancy pact. They don’t want to get married. They want to have the babies and raise them and go to the community college next year. They selfishly have no idea that this will change and perhaps damage their families forever. The girls’ mothers are all best friends whose lives become very chaotic as they cope with the shock and public disapproval of the “pregnancy pact”. Susan faces the most disapproval and is in danger of losing her job. The town believes that the mothers are responsible for raising perfect daughters and that only bad mothers raise daughters who become unwed pregnant teenagers. It is thought that a pregnancy pact may actually have occurred in Gloucester, Maine in 2008. Seventeen high school girls became pregnant. There is no hard evidence that it was “pact behavior” but the girls did know each other. It is not known whether the pregnancies were caused by a lack of birth control options, the need to have someone to love them unconditionally, or the glamorization of pregnancy the movie Juno. The principal of the high school did resign due to the lack of support from the community which I think is very sad. This was the basis for the Lifetime move: The Pregnancy Pact and an article in Time Magazine.Read full review
I really enjoyed this book. The author does an excellent job developing her characters and you feel like you are part of the town that they live in. I have loved all the books that I have read of this author so far!
I bought this book because I saw in a magazine and someone suggested it. I love it. Only about 3/4th the way through right now but am hoping the ending is a good one. I can feel for both the main caracters in the book because I myself got pregnant at 16 and had my daughter at 17. I didn't have to go through all that they do but I do know how hard it is and this could very well be someone elses story of how things like this go. I give it an A+
A great book that shows the shades of gray in our society. This novel is an amazing undertaking of a ripped from the headlines tale. Delinsky doesn't rely on mere news and basic story, she brings her own take and realism to her plots.
A good story, though a little over the top of 4 high school friends who all decide to get pregnant. It spells trouble for the single mother of one of the girls who school principle.
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