Finished Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinsky.
Susan thought she and her teenage daughter, Lily, had a great relationship (not unlike, say, Lorelai and Rory). And then she learns that Lily's pregnant. And THEN she learns that two of Lily's best friends are also pregnant. They wanted to get pregnant and raise their babies together. (And these are good kids, not like those skanky girls you see on the Maury show.) This raises a lot of questions about who's to blame for teen pregnancy and just how responsible the moms are for their daughters' decisions.
This was an enjoyable, thought-provoking novel.
And it definitely proves what I've suspected--no matter how involved the dads are, it's the moms who are most involved in the kids' lives, and it is the moms who will get blamed if things go wrong (or "wrong").
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