Teen Pregnancy, Hollywood Style

Where is Kristi Burton? Kristi Burton is head of the Denver based group "Colorado for equal rights". She is the author of a measure that will appear on the November ballot that defines a fertilized egg as a full fledged human being. So my question for Miss Burton is why has she never helped a child with special needs? Opted for a "Group Home", in her neighborhood? or adopted a child? Can anybody answer this for me? Should we not care for the "Born" as well?

Al of you whol say this is a stupid concept may not be worng, but your not right either. Teens shouldn't be having sex, but they do. Know matter how hard you try your son or daughter will find a way out of the house and into their sweetie's pants. Teen pregnancy happens, it has been since ever. In the fiftys only married people were only allowed to buy contreptives like condoms. The result was pregnant teenagers. I would say things are better than they used to be. Though your child may have sex, at least now they have the option to protect themselves. Though pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease isn't a good thing in teens. There going to have sex eventually. Remember when you were in love in high school? I will bet all my money that a good portion of you posting on this forum had sex before you were married.

How about addressing the issue of poverty and how teen pregnancy rates are always highest in the areas of highest poverty? I guess it's just easier to blame loose morals and Jamie Lynn (who came from poverty by the way). For teens whose lives are so bleak, pregnancy may actually seem like a way out.

Where is Kristi Burton? Head of Colorados Equal Rights Organization and author of the Human Life Amendment? How come she doesn't step in and care for the born, not just the unborn? How come she has never volunteered to assist with special needs children, helped out at a group home or adopted a child? These are questions one must answer yes?

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I am a teen mom and i have to say that you can talk to your kids all you want but when it comes down to it they are going to make their own decision. i had protected sex and the condom broke and now i have the most precious 2 year old , lifeis hard but my sons smile and when he tells me how much he loves me makes it ll worth it. as for just talkin to yor kids about not having sex youshould also discuss what couldhappen if they were to get pregnant andmore importantly dont tell them that they are a disappointment be there to hold their hand and support their decision, my parents wanted me to have an abortion but i knew i couldnt kill my baby and now i'm glad i didnt because when he looks at me with those loving and trusting eyes iknow i made te right choice. teen pregnancy is not ideal but its not wrong they made the decision to laydown they should take the responsibility of their actions. we as humans have the right to choose, and they made their choice and only god can judge them not us.

I think this article is nit-picking. Ok, so the movie Juno doesn't mention condoms but twice......the point of the movie was to show a young child making an adult decision when she finds herself in a hard situation. Although the relationship between her and the adoptive parents is a little weird, in the end, it does show the consequenses of having sex.

Lets face it....unless a teenager lives in a hole, they all know that sex can lead to pregnancy or STDs. And they all know that contraceptives exist. *I* knew it way back when I got pregnant in high school nearly 12 years ago. Although I do agree that the Jamie Lynn thing does tend to romanticize beeing a teen mother, I for one am glad to see this subject in TV and movies. The more it is out there, the more teenagers will see that it really CAN happen to them.

In my case, I was a mother at 18. No, it was not romantic, easy, fun, or something that I would chose for my daughter. It took me nearly 10 years to get my bachelors degree, and I never got to experience life as I should have when a young adult. I am married to a man who was also a teenage parent. (Surprise, neither of us are the biological parent of eac other's child.....which just adds more to the drama now.)

No, being a teenage mother is not a death sentence, but it is NOT something that is "ok" in my eyes. My husband and I had a child together when I was 24, and the difference between the pregnancies, deliveries, and child rearing was amazing. Six years made such a huge POSITIVE difference. I would encourage ANY young adult, even married couples, to wait until they are at least in their mid 20's to have children. It makes a world of difference to allow yourself to grow up a little bit before trying to raise a child.

I am a teen mom and i have to say that you can talk to your kids all you want but when it comes down to it they are going to make their own decision. i had protected sex and the condom broke and now i have the most precious 2 year old , lifeis hard but my sons smile and when he tells me how much he loves me makes it ll worth it. as for just talkin to yor kids about not having sex youshould also discuss what couldhappen if they were to get pregnant andmore importantly dont tell them that they are a disappointment be there to hold their hand and support their decision, my parents wanted me to have an abortion but i knew i couldnt kill my baby and now i'm glad i didnt because when he looks at me with those loving and trusting eyes iknow i made te right choice. teen pregnancy is not ideal but its not wrong they made the decision to laydown they should take the responsibility of their actions. we as humans have the right to choose, and they made their choice and only god can judge them not us.

I agree with lovedove2100, I also got pregnant and gave birth in high school, and was not only President of the class, Editor of the Yearbook, and an Honor/AP student, but I have succussfully raised my child and have been married to the same man for over seven years. We have since had another child through family planning and I graduated with my BA recently. At that time, I felt it the best thing to do was to show others that I took responsibility for the choices I made by continuing on with my life as it was prior to the pregnancy. I was an example to other pregnant teens that you do not need to drop out of school, life will go on, its all about what you make of it. I do not think its "glamorized" to show teen pregnancy, I think its a a way to show that you can make the best of a "garbage-dump of a situation" (as quoted in Juno). Having family support as opposed to "consequences" is helping babies from being aborted and abandoned. The most responsible thing any person who creates a child can do is to raise it, whether that be with a partner, a parent, or alone. (btw, I'm not talking about cases of rape or incest) Contraception is widely available and most teens do know about it and know where to get it, its just the immaturity issue that keeps them from using it, and of course, teen sex isn't always a planned event. Maybe we should try to instill higher responsibity among teens and increase maturity levels which, in turn, create better choices.

It really upsets me to see "Juno", the film brought into this discussion. If ANYONE saw the film and remembers what they saw, Juno did NOT glamorize teen pregnancy. What the film DID do is show young girls that they have choices beyond abortion for an unplanned pregnancy. If children (people under the age of 18) are going to be having sex (an adult pass time, if you ask me), young girls will get pregnant even if they use contraceptives (they're children- how are they expected to remember to take a pill every single day?). These same young girls need to know that their babies do have fingernails and that there are people in the world (like me who am barren) who would LOVE to raise their babies in a safe, loving home!
Juno did NOT encourage or even glamorize teen pregnancies. If anything I felt it was a, "Kids, don't try this at home!" message, which more kids need to hear anyway.

I too am or was a teen mom, I was 16 when I gave birth to my son, I however was not on birthcontrol and was brought up in a very religious household and had been taught to abstain from sex until I was married. But like so many young girls with tight reins on them I rebelled and snook out and 9 months later had an amazing child to show for a very stupid thing I did. I am not with the father, he ditched when I told him the news, but my family supported me my retired grandparents watched my son for me while I finished school and worked, I graduated and then met the most wonderful man in the world, we married in 03 and he adopted my son, and we have two girls together. I got on birth control after my son was born and actually did abstain from sexual intercourse until I was married. So not every girl fits the statistics, you can overcome the silly thoughtless mistakes that you make while still a child, as long as you have the love and support you need. I do however encourage any young teen girl or boy to be careful, USE PROTECTION!! You don't want to miss out on your prom or sports, and in the long run you wont regret your child but maybe you'll regret not having your own childhood. Hope this helps:)

Political party lines aside, by "draconian laws...," I assume that you aren't referring to laws that make it illegal to coerce or threaten an expectant mother into having an abortion. Certainly you are in favor of such laws, as such terrorism has no place in society. I, for one, would like to see the media draw attention to issues regarding statutory rape, coersion to have an abortion, and STIs/STDs.

For those teenagers who find that they are expectant mothers, there is a vast social support system in place, coast to coast, pregnancy centers and expectant mother care which are there to help her. Interestingly enough, the media doesn't have very much to say about these non-judgemental places of unconditional love.

Abstinence-only education would certainly be phony if taught by the likes of Planned Parenthood. We don't teach children to wear a fireman's protective gear when starting forest fires based on the assumption that children will start forest fires and there's nothing we can do to prevent that. Why do we apply the same logic to preventing STIs? Does anybody care about preventing STIs/STDs? It sounds like the living people--zygote, embryo, fetus, preborn baby, unborn child, offspring--choose whichever term is most appropriate, but a person's a person and if you listen to what the media says--and doesn't say--it seems like the innocent person (born or preborn) is more of a problem than the spread of STIs/STDs.

Why does the media have more to say about condoms, abortifacients, and abortions than preventing premarital/extramarital sex? When is the media going to step up to the plate and take a responsible role in portraying marriage as a natural expression of love between a husband and wife, a procreative pleasure that is pure only within the bounds of marriage. It would be great to see the media seek out and celebrate somebody's 50th wedding anniversary every now and then.

i dont realy think its to do with the parents because most children dont want to tell there parents they are having sex. teenager think that they will be fine they dont relise how easy it is to become pregnant. the hardest thing for a pregnant teen i think is to tell there parents for me it was fear of being rejected, fear of dissapointing them and i was right, i was 17years old when i got pregnant, had been with my partner for only a short period of time and after i had told my mother threw a txt i never heard from her for a week, she was very unhappy and didnt agree with it at all, it wasnt untill i had my baby that she actually excepted it but she still dont treat me the same. my daughter is now 16months old im still with the father we are renting a house just the three of us and i wouldnt change a thing. just because more and more teenagers are having babys doesnt mean they wont be good parents all they need is the love and support of there familys and they will do fine.

I realy think you all have missed the point. While I do not condone teen sex or teens as parents. As Juno put it 'I'm just ill equiped. . .'. Hollywood is not in the buisness of providing correct information and never will. They sell entertainment pure and simple. As parents we need to teach our children the diffrence between reality and fiction. Become an informed consumer and discuss with your children what the are watching and how it relates to 'real life'.

were in the 21st century people need to deal with teen pregnancy your kid these days are gonna have sex weather you like it or not parents can talk talk talk all they want but hey *** happens im tired of seeing *** like this on the internet im an 18 year old mom and those things are true and i think the main thing that i get is a big get over it sign. beeing a young mother is glamourouse in the fricken 18th century kids were haveing babies at 14 and younger..... so you can talk all ya want but the reality is ya kids gonna do it or not with or without protection even the nerds at school straight A students do it one big thing.....Get A Life And Get Over It

eveyone who tunes into this crap feeds the ratings machine. if you have any sense of self worth you will not have this on in your home. talk about it my backside. sluts and whores and enabelers with money. birdbrains and servers. wise up. what is to discuss? IDIOTS.

The people of OK Magazine should be ashamed of themselves for painting JLS' teen preganancy in such a lovely light. She doesn't belong on the cover of magazines. The media's handling of her unfortunate situation is abhorent. It makes my job as a parent even harder. How can we explain to our children just how wrong it is to engage in adult behaviors, while risking teen pregnancy and STDs, when the media puts people like JLS, who are supposed to be healthy role models, on a pedastal?