No. I am defending those girls, first, because I do not think that anyone who answered here has caught the point of what I was saying (not surprising since everyone who answered has a vocation, Ayla to a public career, you to medicine, elskuligr to scholarship), which was the cultural significance of this; and second, because your patronizing put my back up. As a matter of fact, the one thing that seems to have come out clearly from Gloucester High - the families and the girls themselves are saying nothing - is that the girls had made a pact to help each other with parenting; which shows, to me, both maturity and immaturity. Maturity, because they are clear on the matter that children take hard work and lots of it and that mothers need each other's help; and immaturity, in that they seem to believe that high school friendships can be relied upon to last after graduation. So there is ground for both viewpoints, but not for dismissing this as the silly behaviour of brainless chits who do not know that motherhood is tough. If one thing does in fact come through from their pact of mutual help, it is not only that they know that it is, but that they expect little help from boyfriends and adults.