Baby 101

Being a Mom is the best feeling in the world???? Please I was a teenager when I became a mom, even with family and friends help it was the hardest time in my life. I now have a 30 year old daughter who I love with all my heart, but if I could repeat history, she would not be here.
The only reason its the best feeling is because shes being paid a bundle for the pics and has the money to have someone else do all the work. Her little fairy tale world of a husband, career, and kids is going to blow apart as we adults know its hard to be a parent and have it all. Mark my words, she will loose her man as they will both get tired of playing house. Sue Oregon

Hey L Jackson: hate to break it to you, but there are quite a vast number of sixteen year olds who don't have sex. but no, I DON'T think its ALWAYS wrong for sixteen year olds to have sex.

I think it's awful that the magazine has even paid Jamie Lynn for this. There are a LOT of LITTLE YOUNG girls that looked up to her, and now what message are they getting?????? Let's use our heads here people!! This was a HUGE mistake on OK magazine's part as well as Jamie's and her parental "figures". This world is going down hill so fast & this little famous teen that couldn't keep her legs shut is helping it go down even faster. But who cares about all of the other little girls in the world right?! I mean she's Jamie & she got her 1 million dollars that I'm sure she REALLY needed. Great gift for someone who know's nothing about life. It's really sad!!

As a teen father, I must say the majority of you have your heads shoved where the sun isn't shining. What should OK! do. Show the typical teenage girl smiling next to an aborted fetus? Cause that's the reality of it. Abortion is just another method of Birth Control to girls nowadays. And to the people who feel that she is a (expletive) for having sex at an early age and think your daughters are pure, they aren't. They have abortions behind you backs and have STDs. There are worse things lthan having a baby, like the previous stated routes.

I have a 11yo daughter and 9yo niece who watch "Zoey 101" religiously, they read the article on OK and comment that it said having a baby is the best thing in the world.. I had to bring them back to realty that being a mom at 16 is not the best thing in the world when youre still in school and have no job, its all sugar coded in the mag because they are talking about someone who school comes to her and has no worry in needing to work. I believe no one is arguing the fact that she has money and dosent have to worry about a baby raising a baby. The argument is about giving this impression that having a baby at an early age would be a life in "Never never land" when things gets a little rough we can just throw a few fairy dust and all would be just peachy again.. It took me awhile to explain to them the CONS (there's is no pros)of having a baby at a young age but its scary to think those kids out there who dont talk to there parents..Only when its tooo late...

Isn't it interesting how OK! magazine called the Spears family "smart"? Crafty is more like it. Their parents have done nothing but use boh of these kids as a meal ticket. And of course the magazine lost a cover story when they couldn't run the original story they had with Britney and - SNAP! - guess what falls into their lap? . Not publishing the original story they'd planned to do with Britney had precious little to do with compassion on the magazine's part and everything to do with their image. They knew everyone everywhere would be outraged. Ah, but teen pregnancy? "It's cute! It's cuddly! It's kids playing house, and besides -it's not like there aren't teenage unwed mothers in the world! Babies are a safe cover story; mental illness? Not so much."

If I were J.L's mother, I would be LESS interested in profiting from this and more interested in trying to figure out where I went wrong. I wonder if she's still going to write that parenting book. Maybe OK! can run it as a serial.

I don't think that teen's understand that Jamie Lynn is a successful young actress that can easily take care of a baby. A baby is not changing her career goals and opportunities; like is would most teenagers. I know several teens that have had to go to work instead of attend college to support their baby. Most teens can't hire a nanny and keep going to school, work, and keep a social life.

Bottom Line, It's all about selling a Magazine. Most america's live in the Real World and not in Hollywood. I tend to believe that most parents do the best they can. Not all children are going to listen to what Mom has to say. My daughter got pregnant at the age of 17 is a unwed mother. I put her on birth control but guess what she didn't take it. Guess I should have shoved it down her throat. Now she still living at home with the baby and I won't lift a finger to help. As I say, Live and Learn the hard way. Some Grandmother don't want to raise their grandchild and I'm one of them.

I guess I can say I'm young and I like to read up on the celebrities. I honestly do not think this whole situation with Jamie Lynn is a big deal. Jamie Lynn made her own choices and so does every other teenage girl in the world. Everyone is bagging this article and these pictures in ok magazine.....LET THIS GIRL ALONE! She is happy who cares what everyone else thinks....Let me ask everyone a question.....would you like people to talk *** about all of the mistakes you have made? And hpow many of you that have had babies this young can say your babies were mistakes??? Ask yourselves that question!

Yes...As sad as it is Jamie Lynn (Miss. Nickelodeon) being splattered all over magazine covers with a baby glamorizes teen pregnancy. With then teen pregnancy rate on the increase again, that???s all teens and young girls need is one more irresponsible role model.

I am the mother of a teenager, mind you a boy and know that education starts at home....mental, physical, and sexual. I like many parents have always spoken to my son about sex......Always! I thank god every day I know where he is on the subject. But I have to say, for him I am scared. Because there are parents like Jamie Lynn and Britney who obviously did not give their child what they needed to make them feel secure, loved, and guide them down right path, they look for that loved secure feeling elsewhere and as sad as it is usually end up knocked up. With that being said let me also say I know you can love and educate a child but you can???t make them retain the knowledge, but come on both daughters. Again it is obvious they lacked at home and now they are planting the seed in the youth of America that it's cool to be a pregnant teen.

I find it totally disgusting and am appalled that there are thousands of magazines, movie, televisions shows, and talk shows that ride these kinds of stories to the bank every single day, poisoning our youth. For a great example look at the OK magazine title, ???Jamie Lynn???s Baby Maddie! Being a mom is the best feeling in the world!??? What is this title saying to young girls? If you feel unloved and incomplete have a baby, it is unconditional love and you???ll always be needed! And then within the first paragraph Rob Shuter, executive editor of OK magazine stated ???Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy in December 2007, it was the best-selling issue since the magazine's American debut in 2005.??? Does these article tell teens how it feels to be a normal teen (not a celebrity) and missing the prom, not going out on a date, having to pay rent, having to pay bills, welfare, etc. No???..It does not! While Jamie Lynn may never want for anything if she chooses to spend and invest wisely, the truth of the matter is the majority of the youth don???t have that luxury.

What are all of these thousands of magazines, movie, televisions shows, and talk shows doing to discourage teen pregnancy? NOTHING! This article was about CELEBRITY teen making the decision to lay down and have sex and the choice they made when she became pregnant. While I commend them both for doing the right thing and being responsible, where are the morals of the magazine? Did they address any teen statistics? Did the talk about abstinence or prevention? How about the disease? These are all real situations, did the address this issues? I???m sure not!

I agree with livilla.. I myself worked in the school system for over 3 years and I taught and still teach HIV/AIDS and STD subject matter to our children. And yes I say children! Most out there don't have any education. And that is what is wrong with out society, I am a youth advocate and a activist who wants this information in the classrooms of my soon to be child at a very young age. I have personal experience of what it is like being raised with a brother who was born with HIV and died of complications of AIDS and I will tell you that I think it is ridiculous that our parents try and hide the truth. My mom is the best mom out there, She spent all of her life and financial security to make sure we were and are happy and healthy. She had the bad luck in raising her children in a society that not only didn't want to talk about STD's and pregnancy but burned down houses and cursed and did really stupid things to people if you knew someone with HIV/AIDS, I can certainly understand why she never told us about our brother. People are so ignorant. I am very proud of my family , my mom and my brother's accomplishments. He started Treasure The Children. www.treasurethechildren.org And how this related to the Jamie Lynn story is this. We need to stop yelling at the media's attention they open our eyes to what is truly out there, They give our children reasons to ask us about what is going on. They open the door for us to talk openly about sexual eduacation, STD's and pregnancy. It's kinda funny reading all your thoughts on this matter. This just gives me reason to go out there and educate more.It should do the same for you. Teeagers really don't know what's going on. They do think that if you engage in oral or anal sex you can't get STD's. They think if you engage in that type of sex that you are still considered a virgin. I have personally known many kids trying these things. I have had middle schoolers tell me openly in class with teachers there that everybody says condoms don't work so they still have sex but don't use condoms. I thnk abstinance is a wonderful idea but the truth is it's an idea. It's not "reality". And I certainly want my soon to be baby to learn from his mom and dad 1st about what is out there. No hiding the truth. If I can educate hundreds of thousands of youth I can certainly do that for my child.
If you want the truth look up the statistics of pregnancy and STD's it is always on the rise. www.cdc.gov
In my future I have no idea what it will hold but I do know I will teach my child to think anout the circumstances and outcomes in his future. And that's really all of us can do because in the end it is their decision. I will back that decision up no matter what the outcome. I certainly will not blame the magazines, celebrities, or society.

Seems like exploitation, making a buck off a rich pathetic slut. Oh, but this is America, it's all about the money, spears has some, everyone else wants some. Casey and OK! magazine are now assured they're going get some. By acknowledging the unplanned indescretion it promotes an unhealthy and unwise lifestyle that guilable,naive, adolescents without appropriate parental support will surely emulate.

Posted By: sjumoke @ 07/15/2008 9:34:23 AM
Comment: I had my oldest daughter when I was two months shy of my 15th birthday. It was very difficult going to my single mother telling her that her oldest child was having a child. There's nothing to glorify by having a baby at a young age, especially when you haven't finished being raised by your own parent. Everyone's situation and circumstances are different. I am a black female, oldest of 4 children (2 girls, 1 boy), dad was more interested in selling/using drugs and other women, had a great mother who loved God and her children (worked 12 hours a day, still does). I continued school and graduated with my diploma (guitting was not an option). I've always wanted to help teen boys and girls learn about the consequences of their actions and behaviors, but I've never been the position financially (I do speak to the kids and teens I met through my children). Jamie Lynn can take this opportunity to educate other teens if she likes, if not that's her decision. She owes no one anything. The ugly truth is she's not going to be the first or the last child/teen to get pregnant. This issue is a large bigger than this young lady and everyone knows it. Just be grateful that she can afford to actually tend to the babies needs. I could go on and on about the trials and test she, myself, and others in this situation have to face (time and space won't allow it). I needed to feel loved by a male, he was my first and it was my first experience and I got pregnant. THE FIRST TIME...GO FIGURE!! Everyone has a story: some want love, attention, money, the feeling that they have control, etc.

Posted By: sjumoke @ 07/15/2008 9:34:23 AM
Comment: I had my oldest daughter when I was two months shy of my 15th birthday. It was very difficult going to my single mother telling her that her oldest child was having a child. There's nothing to glorify by having a baby at a young age, especially when you haven't finished being raised by your own parent. Everyone's situation and circumstances are different. I am a black female, oldest of 4 children (2 girls, 1 boy), dad was more interested in selling/using drugs and other women, had a great mother who loved God and her children (worked 12 hours a day, still does). I continued school and graduated with my diploma (guitting was not an option). I've always wanted to help teen boys and girls learn about the consequences of their actions and behaviors, but I've never been the position financially (I do speak to the kids and teens I met through my children). Jamie Lynn can take this opportunity to educate other teens if she likes, if not that's her decision. She owes no one anything. The ugly truth is she's not going to be the first or the last child/teen to get pregnant. This issue is a large bigger than this young lady and everyone knows it. Just be grateful that she can afford to actually tend to the babies needs. I could go on and on about the trials and test she, myself, and others in this situation have to face (time and space won't allow it). I needed to feel loved by a male, he was my first and it was my first experience and I got pregnant. THE FIRST TIME...GO FIGURE!! Everyone has a story: some want love, attention, money, the feeling that they have control, etc.

Yup, Jamie Lynn Spears glamorizes teen motherhood. We naysayers thought that unwed, unplanned pregnancy during high school would never be the craze of the cool kid set, but thanks to Jamie Lynn Spears we can expect maternity clothes in Forever 21. In addition to that, we'll see the advent of cool teen mom cover stories on all our gossip mags, morning tete -a- tetes with Matt Lauer about the chaotic, yet awesome difficulties of juggling motherhood with cheerleading and SAT prep courses. Because every girl dreams of being that girl. The one that gets knocked up in high school. Now that she's been on the cover of a magazine, a gossip magazine exploiting her controversy and celebrity. I'm sure it's "amazing".

Really, because getting pregnant at 16 is a "smart" choice. Face it, you got your money so you will be sensetive to the situation to get the next story. Now we have a teen sitcom coming out about how being a teenager and being pregnant is "OK" and can be handled. This is not how our society has tried to teach our children about "Smart" choices. I am sure she is not in the best of spirits either, lets faceit her teen years are now shot! She is 17 with a child all she did was fit the bill of a young girl thinking having sex at 16 (or even younger) is an ok think to do. I could go on but really, why even bother! This on going "its ok that she is having a baby at 16" just makes me sick and I will no longer buy your magazine nor read it for that matter!

since when britney is a princess of pop, come on she cant sing and her sister cant act , Disney said that , yes wright, and i am who die and make these two trash trailer Bitc.. the best women in the world,, ask their mother another Bitc and gold digger

It is not OK! to have a baby when you are 16, but it is not OK! to have an abortion either. Babies are people, not trash! When my mother was 16 she got pregnant with me. I thank God everyday that she did not have an abortion and made the wise choice to let me live. She married my father and a few years later they divorced. During the divorce, they made another hard but wise choice. They gave legal custody to my paternal grandparents. My parents realized that raising a child, especially when you are still a child, is very hard work. They didn't have a rich, famous family and lots of press coverage, but they did have family support and the opportunity to learn the consequences of their choices. Jamie Lynn Spears and her baby needs all the support they can get. The public and the press need to praise her for not having an abortion, but also focus on the real issues; teenagers who are engaging in sexual activity and the realities of being a teen parent. I learned a lot from my parents' choices. I finished high school, went to college and got a job. I married when I was 25, got pregnant for the first time when I was 30, and have two beautiful children. I have a master's degree and am a productive member of society. Jamie Lynn's baby should not be punished for her mother's choices. She is an innocent bystander, not trash!