Human rights activist Malcolm X once said: “The media is the most powerful entity in the world. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and the guilty innocent, and that is power. Because they control the minds of the masses. While three out of ten teenage girls become pregnant at least once before the age of twenty, the media really doesn't help (Teenage Pregnancy). Articles in magazines, books, movies, television shows, and even music promote teenage sex acts as well as teen pregnancy. Teenage pregnancy is an epidemic glorified by today's media, it is the main promoter, or cause, of this crucial social problem. Teenage pregnancy has many negative effects, some well-known and others more secretive. Some of the most revolutionary and effective measures relate to the financial aspect of being a teen parent. Fifty percent of teenage mothers seek welfare during the first five years of their child's life. This is one of many facts that illustrate the almost non-existent financial stability of teenage parents. According to a study of 100 teenage mothers in the UK, only eleven percent of teenage mothers receive a salary (Teenage Pregnancy). With such rates, the financial burden falls not only on the families of teenage parents, but also on the rest of the world's citizens. In 2008, nearly eleven billion dollars of American taxpayer money was spent to care for and support these teenage mothers and their children (About). Of course, a large portion of these single mothers do not receive any form of support from the fathers of their children. In fact, less than a third of teen mothers receive any form of child support from those mothers...... middle of paper ... school statistics for the previous year. Principal Jose Sullivan claimed that the girls made a pact to get pregnant by the end of the year, with one of the girls even enlisting the help of a twenty-four-year-old homeless man to get pregnant. pregnant. This group of teenage mothers practically became famous thanks to their shenanigans. After the event, an episode of “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit”. aired with an episode of another popular crime-solving TV show, "Bones." Both centered around the same plot and structure of the events at Gloucester High School. Additionally, the previously mentioned original film, The Pregnancy Pact, was based on the events that occurred at the Massachusetts high school. The media's proliferation and exaggeration of these horrific events gives teenagers yet another reason to envy and idolize these teenage mothers...