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In Gloucester, the 1,student school administered pregnancy tests to students in the past academic year. By Jason Szep 4 Min Read. A pregnant woman is seen in a file photo. But, warned the teen mom from Gloucester, Mass. You lose being able to go out.

I know a lot of people that like to go out every night. You lose — you lose everything. As TIME reported this week, 17 girls at the high school have become pregnant this year, with half of them sophomores who had entered into a pregnancy pact. All but one of the seven or eight girls who set out to become pregnant are 15 years old; the other is Most got pregnant by their boyfriends, but one father is reportedly a year-old homeless man.

At the time, she was a junior at Gloucester High School. She later gave birth to Carly, who is now 9 years old and in the 4th grade. The scandal erupted after a school official told Time m agazine in June that the students had made "a pregnancy pact.

Teen birth rates are a subtly different measure than teen pregnancy rates, but the numbers are still a source of concern for parents and public health experts alike. And some have cited pop culture glorification of teen pregnancy as an explanation for the bump in births.

The other element that some say may have come into play is the copycat factor -- a phenomenon in which young viewers imitate what they see in the media. One illustration of this principle occurred in ; some who had watched the film "The Program," imitated a scene in the movie in which high school football players lay on the center line of a highway to test their courage.

One of these real-life imitators died after being struck by a car. More recently, following the broadcast of the hanging of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, reports filtered in from around the world of children hanging themselves after witnessing video of the event. Kaslow says media images may have also played a part if there was a pregnancy pact at Gloucester High.