The story from Gloucester about the girls getting pregnant made news because it was a pact between several high school aged girls to purposefully get pregnant. The school administration supposedly knew about it, and the reason it made national media was because the school admins did nothing about it.

Teen pregnancy has and will always be around, what differs is in how it is handled.

There is an article in Time about how the residents of Wasalia, AK view the "problem", and in their view it's a) not a big deal, and b) none of anyone else's damned business.