Thanks, Jamie Lynn

I think everyone needs to leave the spears family alone! Everyones mad b/c britney is not the same person she used to be! well people....she has grown up now, shes not a 17 year old little girl anymore! Let her live her life! and she deserves to get her kids back! Why the hell k-fed wants them so bad? So he doesnt have to work!! What a lazt bum!! Doesnt he have like 2 other kids with another women? Why he doent fight for their custody? he need to frekaing leave britney alone and act like a real man and get a job!! and stop bumming off of britney!! and if jamie wants to have a baby at 16...then leave her the hell alonne!! Get a life people!!

I'm a bit confused about this... so it's illegal to have sex with anyone younger than 18, but it's legal to get married when you're over 14? Can anyone shed some light on this?

And, on the other hand, how is this even remotely "news"? For the 99.99% of the time that we humans have been alive on the surface of the earth, and up until about less than 50 years ago in the United States, and in most of the developing world today, pregnancy at this age was/is the norm, not the exception. Maybe, just maybe, if the religious whack-jobs, with their decades long Institutionalized child-raping idea of morality were finally pushed aside, then maybe we can begin to have decent sex-ed in this country, instead of the exploitation of women for their youthful sex appeal, like Ms. Spears has been used, (which makes this pregnancy a natural result), and it might be a little easier to have that conversation with your daughters. Good luck. Oh, and can we stop calling kids "born-out-of-wedlock" by the name "bastards"? That's such a vile and hateful thing to do, given how many single mothers there are in the USA, I don't even know where to start. Whoever uses that kind of language should be ashamed of themselves.

Both Britney and now Jamie Lynn are clear cut, crystal examples of what happens when a Corporate entity, like the Walt Disney Company raises a kid. They made millions of dollars off of their looks and now that they're done with them, they're going to be thrown to the wolves.

I plan to have a discussion with my pre-teen granddaughter about this situation. I feel that she needs to know that this is not the idea situation for any teenager to be in period. I also believe that it is a good time to open the discussion up about making good choices.
As far as Jamie Lynn is concerned~she definitely is not role model material for young girls. The Spears family is a hot mess! Hopefully the media will not spend too much time on Jamie Lynn's pregnancy.

I am a college student in Minnesota. I was raised in very very small town, I have two younger sisters who are about Jamie's age. We were all raised Catholic but my mother was a very liberal Catholic, she taught us about safe sex and that we have a lot of options. I find it interesting that the girls that got pregnant in my class and the ones that are getting pregnant in my sisters' classes are the good, church-loving, gay-hating, abstince preaching girls.

Painting all Christians as hypocrites, that doesn't seem liberal or open-minded. Waiting for marriage works for a lot of people. For me and my friends waiting for marriage meant that the right things touched, minds, ideas, goals, spirits, before bodies touched. It sure relieved a lot of the stress that goes with , "is he Mr. Right or Mr. Right now?"

Painting all Christians as hypocrites, now that's open minded. . . . waiting for marriage as I and many have done, sure releives a lot of stress. My body is not a rental car, and the right part of my mind and heart touched his before the body did.

It seems the media picks on certain celebrities but leaves others alone. What about Hilary Duff(aka Lizzie McGuire) who at 16 was dating a 25-year-old? Where was all the media buzz then? What about Private Elvis Presley dating 14-year-old Priscilla? Come on folks. Get ahold of yourselves!

Liberal ideology? Yeah - right....they met in a Louisiana church! Sounds like a hotbed of liberal ideology to me, ha ha. Yeah, right. Even in the debaucerous '80's, when I was growing up in CA - no one got pregnant at 16!!!! I grrew up in a hippy beach town and we learned about the dangers of sex - PREGNANCY - when STD's were a non-issue. The idea of having a baby at 16 was enough to scare us into some form of protection. So, anyway ....I really hope Nick pulls Zoey 101. I mean, 16???



I'm sorry - but 16 years old is still a baby!

I love Nickelodeon.


Maybe cheermomma2003 got it right, but that doesn't mean my daughter or my sons are ready to be parents - for God's sake!

Go christians (They met at church)! So much for absinence and premaritial sex. It's great that you can pick and choose morality to fit your lifestyle! You keep praying for those sinners cheermomma!

Go Christians! So much for premarital sex...I like it that you can pick and choose morality to fit your lifestyle. Yes cheermomma- you go girl- keep praying for those sinners!

"The idea that my child could throw all that away by becoming a mother at 16 makes my blood run cold." What a crock! I was a straight-A honor roll student at a Christian school when I became pregnant at 17. I didn't throw a damn thing away. I graduated #2 in my class and recieved a full scholarship to a great school, where I major in Electrical Engineering. My daughter is now 5, and I can't imagine my life without her. You say you won't be judgemental, but then you say things like that narrow-minded opinion. So what if she becomes a teenage parent? It's people like you that would make her think her life is over, that she can't go on to accomplish anything. Maybe people like you should shut up and let people like me have a voice and give these girls some hope.