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...Lipper said that another goal of her work was to grant the young women a voice. These are people “accustomed to being marginalized,” she said. “Teen mothers crave [] recognition of their thoughts.” Lipper intended for the film and book to “go beyond stereotype to humanize instead of marginalize” those so often looked down upon in society...
After thoroughly researching the issue for her book, Lipper discovered that although Pittsfield was once a booming manufacturing base for General Electric (G.E.), globalization and downsizing had brought about the closing of many factories. The result was what she calls “taking the bottom out of the middle class...
...Increasing unemployment, a dwindling population, crippling budget cuts, a surge in crime and increasing hopelessness along with the influx of crack cocaine and heroin, all combined to make Pittsfield an environment that sustained an epidemic of teen parenthood and a host of other social ills,” Lipper described in a summary of her book...
...things which surprised Lipper in the writing of this book was “the universality of the issue.” Though Lipper does not blame companies like G.E., she found that all across the nation towns like Pittsfield were convoluted due to “globalization and downsizing.” In her opinion, the departure of G.E. provides “a backdrop, an atmosphere in which these challenging social and economic conditions exist...
...absence of hope or opportunity,” Lipper explained, these adolescents create some sense successfulness for themselves by forming a family. “No one had ever told them about opportunities to work towards, and there wasn’t really a rite of passage” like going to college, she said. As a result, teen mothers “use the resources they have” to create one for themselves...