What age is old enough to have sex? When are we old enough to have babies? Is statutory rape a fair law? Is a 9th grade girl with a 19-year-old boyfriend different from two high school seniors, one at 17 and one 19? What about kids who come from countries where lots of people get married and have kids at 15 or 16?
I have 2 friends that have had babies in HS. One is 16 now and already has two kids and the other is 17. The 16-yr-old lives with her 22-yr-old boyfriend and the 17-yr-old is living with her mom and her sister and the baby. They’re both Christian (one is Catholic), and neither one is married. My friend who has two kids will probably drop out of school — she hardly comes now.
I don’t know if my friends chose to keep their babies instead of have an abortion or put the baby for adoption because they are Christian or if that is just what they chose. Being Christian didn’t stop them from having sex. And what passes for sex education in Texas did not keep them from having sex, but it may have kept them from using condoms.
Are these the kind of conversations America will have now that Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant? Or will it all be about celebrity?
What is the “responsibility” that Nickelodeon is praising her for? Is that about her not having an abortion? Because getting pregnant at 16 is not very responsible.
Britney Spears’ baby sister is pregnant
Another Spears baby is reportedly on the way - and it’s not Britney’s.
Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16-year-old star of Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101″ and kid sister of Britney, told OK! magazine that she is pregnant and that the father is her boyfriend, Casey Aldridge.
“It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected,” said Spears, who is 12 weeks along.
After going to a doctor, she said, “I took two weeks to myself where I didn’t tell anybody.”
She broke the news to her mother, Lynne, just before Thanksgiving, the magazine reported.
“She was very upset,” Spears said, “because it wasn’t what she expected at all. A week after, she had time to cope with it and became very supportive.”
Lynne Spears, already grandmother to Britney’s two young sons, told the magazine: “I didn’t believe it, because Jamie Lynn’s always been so conscientious. She’s never late for her curfew. I was in shock. I mean, this is my 16-year-old baby.”
Jamie Lynn plans to raise the baby in her home state of Louisiana - “so it can have a normal family life,” she says.
Nickelodeon released a statement, saying in part: “We respect Jamie Lynn’s decision to take responsibility in this sensitive and personal situation.”
December 19, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Spot on, Cassie. I guess Nickelodeon had to say something, didn’t they, and I agree — what do they mean by taking responsibility?
December 20, 2007 at 4:10 pm
More than likely JLS will just hire someone or have some relative of hers raise the baby while she continues her career. How many people in Hollywood really do care for their own kids?
December 20, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Nickelodeon is only thinking about their star, and keeping her an earning power for their advertisers — that is where this ‘taking responsibility’ spin is coming from. They are only thinking about the money, not the message to society.
December 22, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Nickelodeon is thinking of doing a special on teen sex and pregnancy…But it will do nothing. Our youth is brainwashed to believe that they must all give in to popular social behaivors including the way they dress, the music they listen to, the cars they drive, and the decisions they make. The media is partly responsible to the uprise, (but I’m not taking the blame from the parents either), these girls think they have to lay on their backs in order to keep a boy. Boys watch music videos in which girls are dancing around in thongs and doing whatever the man is telling them to. Times are changing and I’m so afraid that when the tweens of this generation become the adults of the next, we will have a serious problem on our hands. Not only will our welfare system be overloaded with those who can’t care for themselves because they were forced to drop out of school because of pregnancry, our economy will dearly pay for the early mistakes. I’m not saying everyone who gets pregnant at 16 is a horrible person, I’m 18 and understand the pressures, I honestly do, but what I don’t understand is how Mother’s are not passing strength onto their daughters. How girls 8 years old are wearing halter tops and mini skirts. 13 year olds look 16, 16 year olds look 20…It’s ridiculous and I’m sad for our society, I only wish there were more outspoken girls and women out there, more that will stand up and say they won’t be oppressed…It is an oppression, whether people want to admit it or not…
March 12, 2008 at 5:30 am
hey im just gonna rape jamie lynn get her naked and have sex with her
March 12, 2008 at 5:34 am
Getting pregnant in hs is great im almost in hs and im already having sex in ms. the only way ihave sex is the porn way
p.s. i need a new sex partner
April 2, 2008 at 5:35 pm
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April 10, 2008 at 2:47 pm
hey is she realy pregnant??
April 15, 2008 at 3:38 am
This is amazing. However there really are pregnant men currently living. There is a transgender man-named Thomas Beatie, and a REAL pregnant man that was artificially inseminated by an experiment procedure named Lee Mingwei. Lee Mingwei was born a man, and was impregnanted through a controversial procedure…
here is a link I found..
http://pregnant-man.net