Girl Gives Birth to Own Prom Date is a lighthearted comedy not meant to stir great emotions or offer profound thoughts about social ills. It touches on a few of the problems that are found in most American high schools: vandalism, drug abuse, fear of being alone, fear of the future, and teenagers with more energy and free time than good sense. By far the most serious of these social problems is drug abuse.

Chase's father annoys him considerably by repeatedly bringing up the subject of drugs and why Chase should not use them. Chase resents this because it seems clear that when his father was a teenager he himself took drugs. If it was okay for his father why is it not okay for him? Chase reaches a new level of maturity when he finally decides, "It doesn't matter what your parents did. What matters...