However, in news in the recent years, I believe pregnancy has been glamourized. Jamie Lynn Spears, the younger daughter of Britney Spears, had a teenage pregnancy and ended up on the cover of OK! magazine. Does anybody see something wrong with this picture? No father. Father of Jamie Lynn's baby, Casey Aldrid, is not present to take on his duties as a father, at least not if it doesn't involve the spotlight. 16 & Pregnant shows girls from around the country who are affected by teen pregnancy. When asked, most girls admit to not using protection. This is a prime example of the Id, the Ego, and the Superego that Sigmand Freud believes in. In this case, the Super Ego was not present to tell the couple to use protection, there was just the pleasure factor of the Id.
Many girls have to leave school due to being teased, drawn attention to, etc. The young guys who are the fathers run most of the time because they cannot handle the responsibility of being a father. This leaves the young mother to depend on her family for support & help with the baby. Many of them do not understand the responsibility it takes to have a child.
Did you know:
* Three-quarters of a million teens between 15 and 19 become pregnant each year.
* US teen pregnancy rates are higher than those of other developed countries.
* Out of all teen pregnancies, 82% are unintended.
This show helps teenagers understand what teen mothers go to, and the affect having a child has on their life through their way of communication: television. I think this is a great way to get through to young girls. Teen pregnancy is not a thing to be glamorized, rather than exposed for the reality of it.
I do believe that the media is beginning to glamourize teen pregnancy. They are basically airing it and making money off of girls that do get pregnant. This is showing the wrong message, as if it was something to be proud of the way the situations that they were in. They show off the fact that they trusted the wrong guy, had sex before marriage and don't know the first thing about parenting. This has gotten insane and the media is just accepting it and showing it off to the world. They would rather make money off of teenage mothers doing a terrible job then actually trying to prevent this.
ReplyDeleteI'd have to agree cause most of girls on those show don't know one thing about bieng pregenat or bieng a parent. And one of them even said she thought that the child was going to sleep at night and be quiet. I'm a guy and I know that babys need alot of attienion. On the show the guy turns out to be some that shouldn't be trusted that cheated on the girl or leaving to take care of the baby. The people that I feel sorry for is the parents of the soon to be mother, because they are raising the child not the mothers of the child. Once you have child at like 16 there goes everything your soical life, your education and pretty much everything changes and your whole focail point is that child.
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