Thanks, Jamie Lynn

This is a really issue for me. As soon as the news came out about Jamie Lynn both my husband and i sat down and talked to my duaghter about sex and teen pregnancy. (My duaghter was only 9 at the time) I really did not plan on having this talk so soon. We did not try to hide anything, and we tried to answer all of her question the best we could. We just figured that it was better for us as parents to talk about this issue before my duaghter made it to school the next day. As for this cover, I think it is just wrong. Back when I was in high school celebrity babies were on the rise, and we had many young girls having babies. I totally think the Ok. is glamoraizing teen pregancy, instead of discussing the real issue at hand.

Parents and children do not talk as much as they used to. Parents are to busy with thier own lives, and today's children for the most part are raising themselves. Where is today's teen going to turn for guidance? Ok should really think about how they are helping to desensatize our children. If parents are not going to step up to bat and deal with issues like this with thier children, then somebody has to.

I think that everybody just needs to stop talking about all Jamie Lynn being pergnant at 16. You dont hear about none fam girls so why her. Its because of what happened with her sister. You just need to give her a break and stop talking about her. And at least she is going to take care of her baby. Just back off, if you dont want your kids to have babys at a young age teach them and they wont. It's not Jamies Lynn fault.

just beacuse she's pegnant don't mean she's a slut and people should get off her and her sisters back!!!!

i love jamie lynn spears i think that people should being nasty a always talking about her behind her back
give the girl a break !

Oh goodness. Really? why do people talk so much about teenage pregnancy instead of teenage sex. Society associates sex with teenage hood but allows itself to be shock and is eager to judge when one of the consequences of sex takes place: PREGNANCY.

For those of you mocking her, im hoping that none of you are, or were apart, apart of the teen population that no one considers because simply no one knows: abortioning mothers. You know who you are. You too were pregnant as teen, but instead of being brave, taking responsibility for theconsequence of sex, and just simply not encompassing the will of a killer of your own kind, you took the easy, selfish way out and offed your child. no one knows what you did, but you're the first ones to condemn and pregnant teen who is brave and loving enough to keep her child alive and to raise it to not be hypocrits like you.

for the rest of you who dont fall into the category. teens have sex just like adults. a consequence of sex that can come as a surprise is pregnancy...a consequence for both the teen and the adult. yes it is easier to raise a child after the individual has established themselves, but their life isnt over. plus, its the family of the Spears, that baby will be okay, Jamie will be fine, so.....what's your point.

For you mothers with daughters as fan...tell them, jamie lynn was sexually active, and has to face one of the two major consequences of it. encourage them to not make that mistake...to stay a virgin.

stop judging teens who get pregnancy just because you were LUCKY enough not to when YOU were young.

I am a mother of 2 young boys, and also do babysitting for a couple of teenage girls. I think it is not right that her private life has been blown up like her sisters, maybe she's trying to steel britany's front page cover...which she has succeded. But Jamie is the star of a Nickalodian show that all the young girls talk about, if Nickalodian keeps airing her show knowing that all these young girls look up to her what are we telling our teen? That it's ok to be pregnant at 16, or that a 16 year old looks like shes 20? The best thing that she can do for herself and for all our young teens is to get out of the spot light and be a mommy, maybe then Britany will get the hint herself! I'm sure HANNAH MONTANA will not be sorry (or even blink and eye) that Zoey 101 is not on the air any more!!

I have children and none of the spears family is a good example so please do NOT stick up for this trailer trash family that has a mother that was to busy living through her kids and getting the all mighty dollar to be a good mother. This is not God's example neither so don't bring god in to it!! You want to pray, Pray to get this bad examples for your children out of the limelight. You tell me of the girls that had a child at 16 years that has a good husband. I know three, 2 are druggies No one knows where the third one is moved. Never a go life. So think about Moms what a great life they have J.L. spears will end up the same way. Sorry, but just stating the truth.

Getting pregnant is NOT a "mistake" ... it is a choice. A "mistake" would be forgetting to take your umbrella when you knew it was going to rain ... you intended to take the umbrella, but you forgot it ... that is a "Mistake". It is so lame when we hear people label diliberate acts as "a mistake". It is not a "mistake" when a young person diliberately steals something or diliberately smokes crack or when a 16-yr old girl deliberately removes her panties and lies back to spread her legs. She knew what she was doing .... it was not a "mistake".

Getting pregnant is NOT a "mistake" ... it is a choice. A "mistake" would be forgetting to take your umbrella when you knew it was going to rain ... you intended to take the umbrella, but you forgot it ... that is a "Mistake". It is so lame when we hear people label diliberate acts as "a mistake". It is not a "mistake" when a young person diliberately steals something or diliberately smokes crack or when a 16-yr old girl deliberately removes her panties and lies back to spread her legs. She knew what she was doing .... it was not a "mistake"..

I'm pro-life, but I hardly think having an abortion is taking "the easy way out." I can't imagine the horror of making the decision to abort, much less going through the physical trauma and lingering psychological nightmare of knowing you ended a pregnancy. No matter what a woman decides---abortion, adoption or raising the child on her own--an unwelcome pregnancy , especially a teenager's, leaves no good options.

I am amused that in 2008 we place so much emphasis on Jamie Lynn Spears being three months pregnant and completely ignore the responsibility that her sexual partner also faces. These are two people about to become parents, for better or for worse. The relationship they have with their child may well outlast the one they currently enjoy with each other. The father of this child will have to make sacrifices and give up personal freedom in his life in order to spend time on parenting duties. Both parents will need to consider this pregnancy when deciding whether to: get married or not, go to college, work close to home or go where the work is, how they will relate to their extended family and so on. With all these issues facing them, I think the public should give Jamie a little breathing space, instead of heaping full responsibility on her sixteen year old shoulders, for what amounts to a consensual act of intimacy between two people.

I agree with what you are saying in a sense. However, her "amazing decision" was an unexpected consequence. Spears even stated that she's opposed to pre-marital sex but could not bring herself to judge considering the situaiton she put herself in. And she'd be the first person to admit that

I think its sad that everyone keeps saying that this is a 'mistake'. Being pregnant at sixteen is a bad time, but it is not a bad thing. There are thousands of girls everyday that are 16 and pregnant. I believe that we should share with our children the amazing decision Jamie Lynn made to keep her baby and take the responsibility to raise her child versus the easy way out. Yes, things will be easier for her than the normal public because of her financial situation, however, I would share with my children that no matter what life brings them, I will be there to help and support them.

I think its sad that everyone keeps saying that this is a 'mistake'. Being pregnant at sixteen is a bad time, but it is not a bad thing. There are thousands of girls everyday that are 16 and pregnant. I believe that we should share with our children the amazing decision Jamie Lynn made to keep her baby and take the responsibility to raise her child versus the easy way out. Yes, things will be easier for her than the normal public because of her financial situation, however, I would share with my children that no matter what life brings them, I will be there to help and support them.

I think its sad that everyone keeps saying that this is a 'mistake'. Being pregnant at sixteen is a bad time, but it is not a bad thing. There are thousands of girls everyday that are 16 and pregnant. I believe that we should share with our children the amazing decision Jamie Lynn made to keep her baby and take the responsibility to raise her child versus the easy way out. Yes, things will be easier for her than the normal public because of her financial situation, however, I would share with my children that no matter what life brings them, I will be there to help and support them.

right. getting knocked up at 16 is not A mistake. its the culmination of a series of bad choices n 'taking tthe easy way out'

i would get my daughter and sit with her and read what was posted an Helium.com from jenette kamimmula sandoval. it is a start on how we should talk to this generation...

I totally agree...Kathleen, your life is cold , hard, and small. Does anyone stop and think how Jamie Lynn feels??? Seiously...she made a mistake..not like you are so freaking perfect..and Nickelodeon can get over it! If Jamie Lynn gets your daughter pregnant , then be mad at her, but since that's not anatomically possible...go get a life.