Week 4 dq 2 ERIKA HARRIS 

When I was in high school, the number of pregnant females in my senior year jumped up to more than 50, interesting enough. Not a single junior or senior girl became pregnant. It was only the freshman and sophomore girls who became pregnant. It was an interesting thing to watch. The community I lived in at the time had not seen a wave of pregnancies like that in its several hundred years of existence. It was an interesting thing to watch, how the community reacted to the wave of pregnancies. Especially since the overwhelming majority of the girls the community informed them they would be having the babies. Some quick marriages were arranged, but mostly the girls families decided that marriage was not going to happen, and they would simply take on the new child. Some of the “fathers” had fathered more than one if not more than a few of the girls. The families had no interest in adding him to their family. It was a ok, so no thanks we will deal with the consequences, but that boy has no place in our lives. If he can manage a job and pay child support than he can have visitations but mostly it was just “go away”. Specifics to the community are a different subject than Tiffin. I have problem regarding Tiffin Ohio since not a single one of my relatives lives within 200 miles of the place anymore. My other hometown Colorado Springs again not a single person I know still lives there. I am sure people I grew up with and the like still live in the area. But I could not care less about them. But this other community that is personal and private. My family still live in the area, and a family member works for the school district. It is an interesting thing to watch what the community does and how the community react to the functions and structures of the rules the community created. Cross culturally the overwhelming majority of the girls who got pregnant identified as a different culture to me. They made decisions I would not make. They placed themselves in situations I would never allow.