Watching a movie with Ali called The Pregnancy Project, based upon a true story. A teenager whose mother had her own first child at age 15 faked a pregnancy for her senior project. She learned a lot about stereotypes, from family, friends and teachers. I don't know that I would let my own child go through that, especially knowing the hostility that would happen when folks find out it was an act. Still, I see how it could be an important social experiment.It's worth checking out - although I haven't seen the end of the movie yet to hear how it all turns out.
Here's an excerpt from an article:
According to the Associated Press, Rodriguez
was curious about how people would react if she appeared to follow in
her family’s footsteps — then defied that expectation:
In the top 5% of her class, Rodriguez participated in a leadership class and lectured her friends about safe sex. But she still heard the refrain — often from members of her own family — that she’d end up just like her sisters.
“Being a Hispanic girl from a family full of teen pregnancies meant that my odds of also becoming a teen mom were way higher than average,” she wrote. “If I gave people what they predicted, how would they react?”
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