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...young women live in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where former Harvard professor Carol K. Gilligan was conducting a writing workshop through a program for teen mothers. It was Gilligan who introduced Lipper to the teen moms by inviting her to visit Pittsfield to record the proceedings of her workshop...
...result of the years Lipper lived in Pittsfield, dedicating her life to highlighting the trials of these real life teen mothers is best exemplified by the audience response at the screening. “I almost started crying,” said Kristina Rodriguez, member of the Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy...
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...