Baby 101

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?

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Just giving one line of ink to this very sad situation is way too much...while the days of shame in getting pregnant before marriage are long gone, this is still a horrendous happening...in an age when birth control is readily available, no young couple should ever find themselves in this situation unless it was on purpose and even then it is nothing to be proud of or to feel is appropriate...they don't even know who they are yet...how can they possible have the skills to be good parents while trying to work their way through the discovery of self that the teen years demand?

MILLIONS OF TEENAGE GIRLS HAVE HAD BABIES AND IF SHE WAS NOT AN ACTRESS WE WOULD BE HEARING NOTHING ABOUT THIS. HAVING A CHILD AT 17 SHOULD NEVER BE GLORIFIED NO MATTER WHO THE GIRL IS

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.

this spread TOTALLY glamorizes teen pregnancy! this girl is RICH and YOUNG and will have little problem raising a child because she'll have the money to afford a good life for it. BUT, the common 13-16 year old girl who LOVED Zoe101 doesn't have those kind of means and will actually need to get by on their wits...which means a FULL EDUCATION. That's gotta be 100% harder if you have a KID WHILE YOUR IN SCHOOL! this article is showing little girls that it's okay to have a baby...look how happy you'll be!!!!

irrisponcible.

if you condone the actions of this little girl, you're probably an unfit parent yourself. i'm not trying to be mean, but seriously...use your brain.

I think people make too much out of something that happens everyday just because she is in the public eye. Leave it alone.. Hollywood made a block buster about a teen prenancy JUNO nobody talked about how that looked to teens and even got nominated for several awards. Please.........

Thanks OK MAGAZINE for making parents jobs a whole lot harder!! This magazine only cares about what sells and not about what is good for our society. Being a teen mom is NOT glamorous....we as a society have a responsibility to our kids to teach them. This magazine shows that they dont care about our girls today. This maybe okay for Jaime Lynn seeing that she can afford nannies and people to help her and teach her how to take care of her baby...but in reality the majority of girls cannot and lets not mention the emotional support a child needs when growing up. A teenager is still trying to figure out life herself!! Teenagers should be thinking about school, college and proms...not diapers, bottles and feeding times! Take it from a former teenage mom, stay in school ladies and think about babies after college!!!!

How sad that anyone would glorify the fact that a 17 year old child is having a baby. What makes it even harder to see is that so many young girls look up to these young actresses.

shame on this mag for doing this. not ot mention everyone one is SICK of hearing about the Spears "nutcase" family anyway. the staff of this mag is interested in only one thing: SALES DOLLARS! hey Jamie Lynn, if you ever become broke on day call the OK mag people, ask for a loan, see what you get! the message here is so far out of whack its unbelievable. as far as "talking to kids about Jamie Lynn" ..... short conversation....... wanna ruin your life, stay home all the time, be broke, miss your teenage years, have people point at you and say..."yea thats her, did you hear about her"? then floow Jamie Lynn's example. remember everyone's doesnt have a "money tree" in the back yard named Britney. that tree will wilt soon too.

unlike the average teen age girl, jamie can let the nanny raise the child when the cuteness wears off, and the baby is sick or keeping her up all night. Get real. OK is sending the wrong message to our kids. And the daddy of that baby, he can sure be taken care of by jamie as well. He doesn't have to work too hard to support a baby who will always have the best of everything. can you feature a story about a young girl and her boyfriend who have nothing and are expecting a baby? Can ok pay the average teenage mom a fortune to show pics of their cute baby? I didn't think so!!! WISE UP OK!!!!!

THAN IS IT OK THAT TEENAGERS HAVE SEX WITH ANY PERSON THAT COMES ALONG WHETHER THE AGE OR NOT? BECUASE IF IT IS THEN WE SHOULD JUST LET THE SEX PREDATORS OUT...HAHA WAKE UP PARENTS YOUR TEENAGERS ARE HAVING SEX WHILE YOUR SLEEPING, QUICK GET THE BIRTH CONTROL PILLS OUT....HAHA

Welcome to Earth!

Jamie Lynn will not be the first pregnant 16 year old in the WORLD. I mean this has happened throughout time. This kid will just be another "RICH" kid whose nannies will take care of the kids because mommy can't handle it. Lots of our teenagers don't have the resources or advantages of (Brittany and Jamie Lynn).
I think that magazines and newspapers make to much of these stories and to pay an already "RICH" persons for photos of her baby is "RIDICULOUS. " We have to much hunger and homelessness issues to pay someone for a baby picture. Who cares what their baby looks like or what's their name. Will it make a difference in your LIFE (No). Are they cutier then the average kid (No) What makes them so SPECIAL. (Nada). We are a sick society if we have to pay someone to see their kid. We make these people famous and they want to charge the WORLD to see a glimpse of their child. (Pleaazzzzeeee). As if they were so important.

Now, if they plan to donate the proceeds to charity for those homeless or Food Banks then that is another story; but to think their kid is so special that we need to pay to have the WORLD see them. They need to be "REAL" with themselves. You are an average human being (who was lucky enough to become a STAR. By the grace og GOD you should be grateful and not sell out your kids for $$$$$

Absolutely this makes teen pregnancy seem like the "in" thing to do. Funny how the media RIGHTFULLY dogs Britney for making a fool out of herself in the public eye but then turn around and as some type of peace offering glamorizes "life in the trailer park" with little Sis Jamie Lynn.

A far cry from the wholesome Disney image they are. Or, is this what the subtle liberal Disney images breed?

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. There are too many people with lack of education having children and living off from the government and from the real tax payers, people watch the movie "Idiocracy", that's where our world is heading towards.

I can understand how OK might justify their take on this situation with the story INSIDE the magazine, but guess what? Most young girls that this will negatively affect can not even buy the magazine! All they see is that cover showing a glowing young teenager just like them and how wonderful it is to have a baby. Young teens want that wonderful feeling! In the school system in our city it is actually becoming a "cool" thing to be under 16 and pregnant. How can this media be so insensitive to this constant and growing concern for our youth?

Even being in the public eye you are lonely and JL Spears could of met Casey and he was the one person that didnt tell her what to do, want money from her...he was there for her....that is not an excuse but...she is just a teen and she does need supervision from her parents and we see with all the info about the parents that it was pretty easy for her to be on her own and unsupervised....kind of sad...but hey celeberties are people too..their mistakes are just published so the world can see them....OK magazine are making their money....

I don???t think that any one of us is in a position to judge Ms. Spears for her decisions. We???ve all made mistakes too. I do think that any of us parents out there have a heavy responsibility on our shoulders to teach our children to be responsible in their choices. Teen sex and pregnancy would still be the scandal it once was if our society as a whole wasn???t so accustomed to seeing it. We have slowly acclimated ourselves into a society where this is done, teenage pregnancy is natural, and young women lacking the capability to behave as responsible adults becoming mothers is perfectly acceptable. In that statement I have pissed off all of the single mothers reading this (put down your weapons! I???m a single mother understanding of your plight!)???let???s put it in perspective. Ms. Spears has the money to care for a child that not all of us (married parents included) would otherwise have at our disposal. I sure didn???t when I had my child. I was far from responsible and lord knows I had no idea what I was getting into, but I faced the music. I worry that young mothers (to be) may be deceived at the difference between raising a child in a middle class life and being rich & famous. Why not do a contrast story (just to show the perspective) about those of us single moms who have worked hard to achieve a decent standard of living, and done that for and with a child. It is rewarding, but the sacrifices and hardships can NOT be ignored.