Although teen pregnancy is a national issue, some of my female cousins come from a small southern community that believe having children at a young age (under 18) is the norm. We cannot hold this judgement against the Spears family, its all they know. Unfortunately, they are celebrities and young role models to young girls. It is up to parents, NOT SCHOOLS, DOCTORS or FRIENDS to influence your child. It is up to you, as a mother, as a father to educate your daughter on realistic portion of being a young mother. Jamie Lynn has the means to support a child, but realistically…most teenage mothers will be using the government for support. We are talking about food stamps, government cheese, and unemployeement. This is realistic.

i think that there NOTHING WRONG in what you did. it your life and you should live it to the fullest.YOU GO GYAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

to me i dont think its rght for ppl to look at her like that we yall make mistakes so get over it i love u jamie i had a baby at 16 so what im bless

First off I’d like to say that all of tjese people are phony Teen Pregnancy has BEEN a big issue oh but now that a popular lil white girl pregnant everybody wanna rush and talk about it now.People need to start raising there own kids and stop letting the T.V do it Parents are so uptight about the word Sex period that they don’t even want to discuss the issue.I was 16 yrs old when I had my 1ST son, 17 when I had my 2ND son, and 21 when I had my daughter so yeah I know first hand how hard it is to raise children at a young age but I probrably would’ve at least thought about what I was doing if my Mom wasn’t so old fashioned and was’nt so scared to talk to me about it instead of listening to my friends.Bottom line she just plays that innocent role on T.V she been having sex and parents need to let their kids know that just because that is how they are as a character that is not how they are as real people cause I’m really tired of hearing about all these Celebrity Girls doing things that NORMAL people get busted for and now the whole world goes into crisis like it is someting new that they just invented!!!!! I wish we could never watch T.V ever again.Everybody would be Normal( I think)

A friend of mine got pregnant when she was 17. Her baby is now 2 years old. Another friend of mine just had her baby last November. They live in another country and asked me what I thought about their pregnancies. I didn’t lie: I told them how disappointed I was when I heard the news because with all the struggles in their country, you would think that they would be responsible enough to use birth control. They know how hard it is to live in that country without a job especially if you didn’t finish school. They were already in college at the time, and it was as if they just wasted all the years they spent studying at a great school, building a foundation for a good future only to throw it away by being pregnant. There’s no welfare services in their country so their resources are limited to family and friends.

A cousin of mine who also lives in another country, had a baby when she was 19. Her own mother had her at 18. Her mom doesn’t have a job, my cousin and her baby live with her mom and my family and I are helping them financially. I have to work and study hard to help pay for our new house and at the same time give money to help my cousin raise her child. I’m 19 years old, I haven’t finished university and I am already giving money to my relatives. Was I bitter? Yes, I was. If I had a say over things, I would’ve liked my cousin to finish school before having her baby. I have been forced to mature emotionally and mentally, put my selfishness aside and help my cousin. Helping others is something I love to do, but at 19 years old, I’m honest enough to admit I’m not that grown up yet. If it taught me something, it was this: I am never getting pregnant until I’m emotionally and financially stable to have a family.

I think motherhood is amazing, but that doesn’t mean any woman who has a baby would be a good mother. The whole family is affected so I wish teens would think about their family, too, before deciding to have sex.

JLS is not the first and last teen to get pregnant, but that doesn’t mean we should just let teens get pregnant because sex is inevitable and ‘accidents’ happen. They do happen, but if we can prevent them (talking to your kids, reminding them, birth controls, etc.), then there would be no ‘accidents’ at all.

somehow this all makes me wonder; the celebrity apotheosis, Hollywood, media hype,hypocricy,everybody obsessed with youth,
and especially this trend of teenage stars, teenage love, teenage girls looking like adults with adult hairstyles and pseudo-wise attitude, teenage this and that…
I am glad to hear everybody’s opinion on this matter, even from those who became mothers at 14 or 12, and I am really happy that their kids are doing well. But please don’t try to justify and present the teenage pregnancy as something normal,positive or even avangarde. It totally isn’t. It is sooo not cool.It is the opposite of cool.
When my daughter (8 years old) told me about it last week and I didn’t believe her.She saw it in a teenage magazine at her friend’s older sister. Honestly I thought those crazy magazines that hunt celebrities are again making things up.I said to her:” I don’t think it is true, it would be terrible.”My daughter doesn’t really get it, I can see she is struggling to understand. And how can she-she is still too young to understand sex, pregnancy biologically as well as socially.
It is as if she would see Santa-Claus masturbating.
I think really something is out of control with Hollywood obsession with youth and sexualisation of teenagers. And the sisters
Spears, give me a break! Nice girls- maybe, but what they do is sort of too much.And their surrounding (Hollywood) encourages them of course! I have to conclude I am done with them. I don’t think that teenage pregnancy, drugs and alcohol should be presented as ‘anybody would do or could do that’- and without rather pathetic consequences.It is just not true, so don’t get tricked by those ‘emancipated voices’.
Also, yes she can afford nannies and baby-sitters but will that be good for her child? Or is that child going to grow without enough mother’s attention, become unhappy and end up doing the same?

HELLO fellow humans. i am chaney nae. i have a question for miss.jamie prego spearnant. jamie lynn was stupid for just doing it to an innocent 18 year old boy. i am 32 years old and am on the popular sho ;bladez; the cheer team. my daughter junior chaney nae waches zoey 101 and she has been very happy for jamie because she knows that she was ready for a child that would be her fault for even thinking about doing it with someone else. well this is her fault she deserves it for making the same mistake my granmother did when she was 14 years of age, she was ready. all i am saying is that jamie lynn needs to worry about this herself and get some therapy. OKAY?? this whole thing is none of your business so worry about yourselves because abviosly you guys have no life and care about other peoples business.

well first she is to yong second she is acting like her sister…. she is also exposing all that is going on to her teen show which millions of kid now what she has done already.

I’m completely mystified as to why a parent would need “professional” guidance on how to talk to their child about Jamie Lynn’s pregnancy. How about just saying she made some extremely poor choices and pointing out the negative impact they’ll have on her life? Several out-of-wedlock/teen pregnancies happened in my family during my childhood, and my parents never hesitated to let me know they didn’t approve and that similar behavior would not be acceptable for me. I’ve also repeatedly pointed out to others why my marrying and having a baby young was an absolute travesty. Why is this wrong, folks? Can we as a society not bear discussion of the obvious?!?

jamie thinks teenage pregnancy is a proud thing to do? sell story like a show?