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Prom Babies: New Trend, or Urban Legend?

If you do a Google search on the neologisms (new words) "prom baby" or "prom babies", you'll come up with almost 50,000 hits as of today. What's a prom baby? A good starting point would be to review a recent Dear Abby column wherein a writer suggested that he/shehad witnessed a new trend of female high school seniors intentionally getting pregnant on prom night to avoid the pressures of college.

Despite thousands of web pages discussing the term, the editors at Wikipedia apparently determined that the phenomenon of prom babies, if real, was not widespread enough to warrant an entry in the Wikipedia encyclopedia. They could find no independent confirmation that this is a social trend.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucda/20070507/lf_ucda/girlsavoidcollegepressurebyhavingprombabyinstead

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles+for+deletion/Prom_baby