Baby 101

I think its awful that you make having a baby at a young age glamerous....I know its not.....you left out the part where you have to stay home when all your friends go out...how many guys dont want to date you because you have a child.....childcare issues....healthcare issues, and all sorts of other things.....You are trying to make it look cool, when in reality for most "normal" people like myself and others...its actually VERY hard and you sacrafice a lot.

That whole family is nothing but the latest trend in hollywood trash to cash marketing. Give me a break 1 million dollars for pictures of her illegitimate child? and people pay it? It's an American embarrassment!
These so called celebrities are too rich to be responsible for them selves and this just brings down our American values even more! and yet we allow our young people to look up to these morally challenged children!childre

Teenagers are getting pregnant everyday and because Jamie Lynn is a star everyone wants to blame her for other teen mistakes because most parents don't want to look at themselves and believe they are part of the problem of thier own tweens or teens. Teens have been having babies for decades and society use to hide it because it was so immoral. Now that we as a society are able to talk about teens having babies lets do something about it to prevent it and help the teens instead of criticizing them. Most teens and tweens parents think there kids are perfect and never talk to them about sex and what can happen when you engage in sex because you are so blind to think that my kid can't be doing that. Well I have to let you know more tweens and teens are having sex now than ever not just because of what they see on TV it's also peer pressue from their friends, boyfriends are just want to be cool. Majority of the females do it because they think it's the only way to make that guy like them when in reality it's not but no one has never sat down to tell her that you do not have to give your body to make a boy like you. Please let's start educating our tweens and teens about sex and the responability that follows such as unexpected pregnancy, STD's and even AIDS.

Ok let's have this conversation in 5 or so years when she is pulling a Britney. This DOES glamourize teen pregnancy, she IS going to have people following her and her baby, she IS going to be under a microscope, and she will eventually crack. Being a teen mom isn't fun. And the only reason it is "OK" (no pun intended) is because of her name. No one cares about if you can pay your bill or not. Every woman is optimistic is about raising a child but it isn't easy A NO AGE!! And when the reality of it all sets in...you will see!!

I agree with most of what driven1010 said: I think that she should give up her Nickolodeon contract. She's a mother now; Zoey 101 is a child's role and she is no longer a child anymore, and needs to accept the reality that that position. I disagree with driven in that she bemoans the liberal world aspect of it - I would be considered a liberal, and I certainly think that it is inappropriate the amount of starstruck baby attention that has been given this young lady. I don't think it should be like the 40's/50's, where pregnant girls were sent away to have babies, forced to give them up, and then quietly brought back to the household in shame. But she stupidly got knocked up, and luckily she lives in a magical world where she doesn't have to worry about her parents kicking her out, doesn't have to worry about money, doesn't really have to worry about who's taking care of the baby - that's NOT a good example for our kids, and THAT is exactly what they will see: pregnancy without consequences. A lot of young girls already live under the delusion that someday they'll be rich or famous - the delusion that they can have babies and everything will be romantic and fabulous is even worst. However, if parents are doing what they're supposed to be doing, this would be an excellent chance to discuss the difference between reality, fiction and priviledge and how it relates to teen pregnancy.

And another thing,,,,who gave anyone the right to put down this child,,,calling her a slut,,,,she is exactly what they say a CHILD ! someone should have been paying more attention MOTHER DEAREST!

I think its awful that you make having a baby at a young age glamerous....I know its not.....you left out the part where you have to stay home when all your friends go out...how many guys dont want to date you because you have a child.....childcare issues....healthcare issues, and all sorts of other things.....You are trying to make it look cool, when in reality for most "normal" people like myself and others...its actually VERY hard and you sacrafice a lot.

I had my son 2 days before my 18th birthday. There is a big differance between a teen like Jamie Lynn and other teen moms. I didn't have nannies to get up in the middle of the night to take care of a screaming baby or someone to hande him over to so I could take a 10 minute shower. I think she needs to realize it's alot harder to be a teen mom in normal circumstances. When teens look at her they see a "storybook ending." I was lucky enough to have a supporting boyfriend who is now my husband and the father of my 3 children but not all teens end up so lucky. I have friends who ended up working at a job for $8 an hour and barely able to feed their children. I think OK magazine has the right to do a story on anything they find intresting but they should have made sure they were responsible enough to do a story on a teen mom who wasn't fed off a silver spoon her whole lifeso other teens can see the whole picture.

The article mentions how, in contrast to Britney, Jamie Lynn made "smart choices"..Hmmm, how is putting one's self in the situation of becoming pregnant at 16 a "smart choice"? And, aside from incest or rape, teen pregnancy is
a choice - it becomes one once the participants choose to have sex. This is
not the 1950's - it is not longer plausable to claim that one did not know that
part A plus part B equals Baby C. It's no longer a taboo subject.

Jamie Lynn may be fortunate in that she has the financial means to raise her child, but money is not the full picture. She is only 17 and presumeably the
child's father is young, as well. Money does not buy maturity (in fact, don't we
usually see the opposite in most celebs. with money!), but I suppose it will buy
responsible nannys and lots of 'things' so the magazines can take their unstaged photos. Perhaps they could come back and shoot some footage of the day after Jamie spends several nights up with a colicky baby, laundry undone, dishes by the sink and circles under her un-made up eyes.

For that matter, maybe we could see some of JLo or Angelina that have not been so staged. Enquiring minds want to know, as the old mag states.

Great, so now celebs are having babies for the ???it??? factor. What happens when ???it??? becomes a child, a teen, an adult? In more cases than not ???it??? becomes part a poster family for despair, destruction, and derailment; money, media and madness. . Too bad the ???it??? factor isn???t a cat. Anyway what???s done is done, hope this does not happen to this ???happy for now??? family and in 5,10,20,50 years they are still going strong.

Nothing is wrong about Jamie glamourizing her being a teenage mom cause that what she's doing. She is not, at the point in time, thinking about the effects of teenage pregnancy and that should be easy for some of us moms to understand that. She is more overjoyed now at the fact that she could produce something or someone rather, so precious and adorable. It is up to the teens who are fans of Jamie spears to protect themselves considering their individual situations in comparison to Jamie's. Jamie is not promoting teenage pregnancy but in my opinion, promoting the joy of being a mother.

Regardless of what OK! says, this is glamorizing teen pregnancy just by having this bright smiling little girl on the cover with her baby. It sends a very confusing message to girls that this is ok...life can be happy and normal again with a baby in the picture. And that is simply not true. I'm 27 years old with no children, so it didn't dawn on me how bad this cover really is until someone else mentioned it and said they wouldn't want their daughter to get the wrong idea. I thought, wow, if I was a mom with a young daughter, this cover would worry me too. No matter what story you tell about how this girl is a special circumstance because of her money, no teen is actually paying attention or reading into that part. All they see is a 17 year old mom who's still got the guy and now has the pretty little baby....and that's not how it usually goes. Girls need to know that motherhood is HARD, BOYS LEAVE!!, and life changes when you become a teen mom....point blank.

Between this and the movie Juno, I wonder where we'll be in 18-20 years. Or rather, where will these kids of kids be? Having more kids? This makes parenting look like getting a puppy - "Ohh! She's sooo cute!" But what about the rest of their lives?

Great, so now celebs are having babies for the ???it??? factor. What happens when ???it??? becomes a child, a teen, an adult? In more cases than not ???it??? becomes part a poster family for despair, destruction, and derailment; money, media and madness. . Too bad the ???it??? factor isn???t a cat. Anyway what???s done is done, hope this does not happen to this ???happy for now??? family and in 5,10,20,50 years they are still going strong.

Between this and the movie Juno, I wonder where we'll be in 18-20 years. Or rather, where will these kids of kids be? Having more kids? This makes parenting look like getting a puppy - "Ohh! She's sooo cute!" But what about the rest of their lives?

She's only known for being "Britney's sister" and "Zoey 101", she's only getting money from publicity stunts like her sister now, such as getting pregnant, getting paid a million dollar for an interview, for normal teenager, that won't happen. Teens need to think about their plans for their future and having a baby should be the last thing on their mind, better parenting needs to play a huge role in teenager's life. There are too many people with lack of education having children and living off from the government and from the real tax payers, watch the movie "Idiocracy", that's where our society is heading towards. Well, legally she is considered an adult, she is responsible for another life, so if she does anything wrong, she is getting charge as an adult. Advise to LS: Watch everything you do because the camera's are on you.