"Did you know, the "teen mom's" get tens of thousands of dollars for each episode of the show? Kinda says, "Hey kids, go get knocked up and we'll pay you mad cash!!!"...ya know. Personally, This chick is the only chick we should be throwing money at for what they've accomplished. I'd think society (yep, even in the US) would shun a station and show that promotes getting pregnant. tsk tsk peps."
While I certainly don't applaud shows that may or may not glorify teen pregnancy, and I've never watched 16 and Pregnant, but this post made me rather angry. Truly, this young lady pictured had the proper support and encouragement growing up to become an Olympian, and how fantastically wonderful for her. How many teen mothers can have the same thing said about them? But--go ahead and bash them. Society's certainly going to dish it up for them, jump on the band wagon and smear them with more shame and humiliation while they're at it. By the way, where are the teen dads who were involved in these pregnancies? No where to be found? No stigma heaped on top of their somehow blameless heads? Are we still living in the dark ages where it's all the woman's fault? Sad...just sad.
I was told repeatedly growing up that I would never amount to anything more than my street walking whore of a birthmother, pregnant at sixteen and my mother already knew where she was going to ship me off to when that day rolled around. Well, damn if I didn't try to prove her right, and only by the good grace of God did I somehow manage to NOT end up pregnant at 16. Would I be soley to blame? But I would've been the only one to bear the shame and burden. So, I have a heart for these girls who've become parents way too young. No, not all of us are cut out to be Olympians, but we all deserve the proper support and encouragement to follow our dreams and have a fair shot at life, even if we do make a mistake. And the right and respect to not be judged and looked down upon if you've not walked in their shoes first.
And as for 'shunning all those stations that promote getting pregnant'? You'd pretty much have to shut your TV off for good with just about every show on every station anymore promoting pre-marital, extra-marital, homo-sexual, bi-sexual relationships, along with ads for male enhancement and 'Plan B pills' flipping across our screens--even at hours during the day when our precious impressionable little ones are glued to the sets while Mom's busy Facebooking and posting pics putting down the girls who weren't so lucky...Tsk tsk peps--whatever peps might be.
I firmly agree with you. I was raised in about the same manor. My mother encouraged me to get knocked up and "trap" a man. I did get married before I got pregnant at 18, though. However, I ended up leaving him right after my daughter was born because I did not want her to be abused as he abused me. I did endure the shame still. Also, as I talk about on my page my 20 year old daughter has a 17 month old girl, she made a mistake. But she is making the best of it and is a good mother. Stuff like this piss me off. People should look in their closets before they start digging in others. Ok, I am done now.
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