Baby 101

I would think that it shows young mothers (or teens who are pregnant) that it can happen to anyone and it doesn't make them a bad person or that it will mean they will be a bad parent. At 16, you should be able to tell the difference between your life and a celebrity's.

Urgh!!! Give me a break OK magazine! Who are you kidding - of course it glorifies teen-pregnancies, by giving a blatant misperception of ???how wonderful it is to be a mommy???. I wonder how soon it will be when Jamie Lynn hires her first nanny to assist in being a ???Mommy???. She is still a child; while making adult wages ??? does not make her even remotely equipped to being able to raise this child alone. So here comes her mom to take care of the business of raising this new baby; while Jamie Lynn gets back to her business of making money, as an actress. Young immature impressionable girls will only idealize this premature pregnancy???just ask the young 13 and 14 year old girls of Gloucester, Mass???.I feel for parents of today; while trying to raise their daughters, with this barrage of contradictory influences depicted on the cover of OK magazine.

All the magazine is interested in is SALES. They knew they had a "cash cow" when the issue announcing her pregnancy was their biggest seller. They could care less about Jamie Lynn, what message their sending or anything else other than MAKING SALES. They would publish someone's hemorroid operation on the front page if they thought it would sell magazines!

I started to write my comment several times and then would delete what I wrote. BASHING these two girls is wrong; but BASHING their mother is the way to go. Your idea of parenting and thinking you had the right to write a book about it is a JOKE. SHAME ON YOU and I have the right to say that.

As a single mom, I raised two great kids; a daughter at the age of 30 is settled with two beautiful children and a great job at Goldman Sachs. Myu 21 year old son just graduated St. Francis College with second honors and has a prominent position at National Grid. YEAH ME FOR SOME GREAT PARENTING.

All the magazine is interested in is making SALES. After their issue announcing Jamie Lynn's pregnancy was their biggest selling issue, they realized they had a "cash cow". They could care less about Jamie Lynn, other teen girls, or the message they're sending. All they are interested in is SALES.

I know in my parents day this kind of story would not be a front page story and it shouldn't be in this day either. It glamorizes and says to the teenagers thats its easy and fun to have a baby. Yes, Jamie has money to pay for this baby but as anyone knows teenagers think money grows on trees. This story only tells teens and preteens its okay to have loose morals. It doesn't tell of all the work, responsibilities and commitment in being a good parent. It helps in the decline of todays younger generation. My mother use to say "Don't believe everything you read. Just because it's in print doesn't make it true." Putting this story on the front of the magazine and inside shows the editors will only continue to print this kind of story for money regardless of the harm it does to anyone. As long as this type of story is on the cover of any magazine I won't buy it or even look at it when I'm in the grocery store line.

i think jamie lynn spears is not setting a good example for teens out there by saying "being a mom is the best feeling in the world"! she may think its so great now..but later its gonna be tough..she knows nothing about the real deal shes living in a fantasy where she thinks everything is gonna be handed to her..just because your rich..it doesnt make life for you any easier or better by having a baby.

Lucky for her she has money, and even if she did have money, she is wasting her youth on a big responsibility, why would you want to be a 17 year old girl and raise a child? Doesnt make any sense. And for those who want to fall on her footstep think twice cause raising a child is not easy, and the money in the world is not going to better your child... its the love that counts when they are young....Children are very needy, they want everything, and just went your about to sit down and relax ""Mommy mommy can i have this and can i have that".... and then of course in a patient matter you have to attend to them....and your time goes when your taking care of their needs, your energy...and leaving your child with a nanny or your grandmother or mother is just another saying that you get tired of taking care of them.....and mothers dont act like you dont get tired because children can take the life out of you....Having money is not an excuse for someone to have children, is the emotion, the energy that someone gives to a child....so that he/she can be protected and wise in the future. I had my son at the age of 19 and well it wasnt easy....i am 25 now and well raising my son is still hard even coming from a good income....I wish i could go back to being 17, I would enjoy every moment of it, with out stress and worries, and if i was 17 with money...shoot i wouldnt have kids right now

i think jamie lynn spears is not setting a good example for teens out there by saying "being a mom si the best feeling in the world"! she may think its so great now..but later its gonna be tough..she knows nothing about the real deal shes living in a fantasy where she thinks everything is gonna be handed to her..just because your rich..it doesnt make life for you any easier or better.

I just read "she stepped up took her priorities and put them in line". EX POST FACTO (after the fact) We shouldn't praise this girl for doing what a pregnant girl is supposed to do, which is have the baby. If she had stepped up, taken her priorities and put them in line then she wouldn't have gotten pregnant. However none of this should be a surprise when you consider her two closest role models are her greedy, trashy mom and her mindless slut of a sister...

I started several times to write something and then deleted it because as a parent it is not write to BASH these two young ladies; but MOM you are a disaster and should be ashamed of yourself.

I was a single mother of two whose daughter at the age of 30 is a married with two beautiful children and a great job at Goldman Sachs and a 21 year old son who just graduated college with second honors and holds a prominent position at National Grid. YEAH ME AND GOOD JOB. Now that's some good parenting.

Hell yes its being glamorized. "Responsible" adults would certainly know better than to reward a girl in the public eye for having done something so incredibly irresponsible. Because she ha the means to support herself she is a VERY different situation than any of her less fortunate peers in thereal world. As an act of responsibility, ALL media outlets should have reported the birth and name out of courtesy and then left it the hell alone. Lord knows how many other girls will now think its no big deal to get pregnant when you are in no way whatsoever ready for that step in life and possible shut off a significant chunk of their future because the media painted roses around the unfortunately public act of irresponsibility of Jamie. Shame on the blodsucking and immoral media!

I want this magazine to show how Jamie loves being a mom in a year or 2 when she's chasing a toddler, when she's 21 and her buddies are going to college parties and 21st birthday "rites of passage" and she's home taking care of a preschooler, and when she's 30 and her friends are getting married and having babies for the first time while she's trying to control a teenage girl (anyone who has one knows what I mean).

Jamie Lynn had a baby, but its not like she's telling every teenage girl in the world to have a kid when they want to. If they do they are idiots. I dont understand how they can say all these things about her and you have people like Nichole Richie haveing kids who did drugs and DUI. But its okay for those kinds of people to have children? Yea right. Leave the little girl alone.

Cut her some slack- she's a young girl who did what almost all of the other young girls (and boys) are doing, but she got pregnant. Whether moms and dads believe it or not, teenagers have SEX. At least she has the financial means and family support to help her through her decision to keep and raise this baby. I was 17 when I found out I was pregnant with my daughter, and certainly wasn't as financially stable as she is, but I made a decision from that moment that my baby wouldn't suffer or go without just because she was being born to a teenage mom. Her father and I worked hard to provide the love and care she needed, and even though we divorced when she was 9, we have both remained dedicated to her well-being. And my reward? I just attended her high-school graduation where she graduated with high honors, and now she's preparing to leave for her first year of college. The world is at her feet and her life is full of possibilities. I can feel good knowing that even though I was young, and it was challenging, I never gave up and we made it through. I think was as good a mom (or better) than many of the 25 or 30 year old moms I saw because I always knew people were ready to judge me for being so young. So, while I agree that teen pregnancy often doesn't end well, don't assume that all teens who get pregnant are going to ruin their lives or their babies lives. If you want something bad enough, you can make it work- no matter your age.

I read the article on Jamie Lynn and I am pleased at how everything was presented. With all the negative things that have been said about her sister, the family needed something positive to come out. I think your readers and other americans should realize that this is true life and that so many young girls are having babies at a young age. Some of which are too scared to tell anyone till the day they have the kid. As a mother who had my first son at 16, life has never been easy but I finished high school with my class. Then went to college. Now im 30 still working on obtaining my degree but i have to say that i am glad life has not dealt me an easy hand but rather a hand that ive had to work and overcome so many obsticles. As for Jamie Lynn everyone says that life is easy for her cause she is a hollywood star, but reality is though she has all the money she needs and looks like family support. What the readers don't understand is that she will have to overcome many obsticles such as not being able to hang out with friend easily. I wish Jamie all the best and I admire her for honesty and yes being a mother is the best feeling ever. Congrats to Jamie and her family. Everyone should just let Jamie and the father of the baby to raise this child and stop making her the reason for the number of teen pregnancy in our society today. My children and I love her show and will continue to watch and support Jamie and her family. And just to add one more comment and that is that the world should stop critizing Britney for all the mistakes she has made, but rather start supporting her in getting the help she needs. I can relate to britney in so many ways and I truly beleive that this is all postarum depression which can take years to overcome. I suffered postartum depression and it went undiagnosed and believe me during that time when everyone was critizing me for the mistakes and decisions i was making just made me worse. It was not until the past 3 months that I have felt like my old self and now looking back on everything in the past 3 years I wish i could go back and change what i did but i cant. Now all i have is the future and making it better. But to this day my family does not see that it was depression but rather they still critize me for all my wrongs and beleive that i deserve everything that has happened the past 3 years. And the same will happen for britney in time. But with all the negative hype on britney she will always feel like she is to blame. And she is not. Britney had too much stress on her with the marriage, pregnancy back to back and of course her career. So why wouldn't anyone agree that postartum depression could be an answer to britney problems. The world should be supporting all members of spears family and stop the negative hype. None of us are perfect and i would never claim to be. I wish britney, jamie and the father of the baby the best.

People are missing the big point here. This IS "A L L" about THE money. I simply cannot understand what parent would support this young womans' pocketbook at the expense of their own children. And you see, this is the point. This young woman now has her million....PLUS all of the money her family will use to support her babies' every need and want. They will not experience the hard facts of where the money will come from to buy diapers,formula, etc. Oh wait, yes they will ! It will come from YOUR pocketbook and mine via welfare programs and such. This front cover does nothing more than glorify teen pregnancy. Do you fool yourself for one moment that she is "suffering" from being pregnant so young? NO....and Brittany would bail her out if she has any needs that her huge salary from her own TV program doesn't provide. And wow, isn't the young man "lucky" he got a girl pregnant who can support him according to his own means. Don't think he had that in the back of his mind when he did the dirty deed?
I will NEVER buy this magazine when it puts this TRASH on the front cover. This magazine should be ashamed to be a part of the damage they have done to young girls. The same should be said of those people who would spend their hard earned money on a magazine with the Pitt-Jolie off-spring. Don't give me crap about them giving this money from pictures for charity. Fools- it's about the charity THEY choose.
In these tremendously hard economic times, I find it hard to believe that people would waste their money on this garbage. Pay your bills, use your cash more wisely. Don't let these idiots get richer on YOUR money.

I think it is scary what society is willing to accept these days. These "children" (because I think people are forgetting that she is still a child) need help. Being a new mom is scary. I should know I just became a new mother at the age of 35 and boy let me tell you, it was a very scary feeling. Intentional or not OK's reporting of this event will encourage teen girls (and I'm not say all of them but one is too many) to think that it is ok to become pregnant forgetting the Ms Spears has the luxuaries that many of them don't have. It may seem like being a parent is the best thing in the world (through the eyes of Lynn Spears) but wait till you "everyday" teens have that extra mount to feed, pampers and milk to buy, bills to pay and no one to help you with those 2:00am and 3:00am feeds in the morning, see if Lynn Spears or "OK" magazine will be there to glamorize your life for you...