Raise your hand if an hour and a half of catching up with teen moms was a bit much for you. Yeah, me too. Read the full post.
Apr 21
2010
08:51 AM ET
'16 and Pregnant: Life After Labor': Dr. Drew makes teen girls cry
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I have to add that I don’t see how this show does anything except glamorize being “16 and Pregnant.” These halfwits apparently didn’t watch the first season or else they wanted to be chosen for the second season. I think if Dr. Drew wants to educate teens, he should create a series that shows what life is like for girls who WERE 16 and pregnant 5 and 10 years ago. Let the cameras follow them around all day and show the teens the life that they have to look forward to. Also, stop providing any and all financial assistance to teen moms. Make it a law that you can’t take your baby home from the hospital unless you (not Mom and Dad) YOU can show that you are financially able to support your baby. Otherwise, the state will choose adoption for your baby. That ought to slow down the teen mother problem pretty quickly.
I am confused as to how Dr.Drew could make a point that one Mom has abandonment issues from being adopted and yet congratulates another Mom for choosing adoption.I know a large number of FirstMoms and adoptees.The FirstMoms are not happy with having their children adopted.They feel lied to and coerced.And Dr.drew should have told the moms that open adoption agreements are not legally binding in most states and the agreements can and often times are slammed shut.Of course the adoption is final.The adoptees I am in contact with indeed do feel abandoned and have a lot of feelings of low self worth.
So adoptees have issues of feeling abandoned…but imagine the issues they would have had being raised by a teen mom. Who doesn’t have issues? One needs to analyze trade-offs and choose the better option.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE SHOW!!!!!!! I watch it all the time. I am 15 and 8 months pregnant and the show helps me and teaches me alot….
and another thing i dont think the show GLAMORIZES anything it shows people like me that im not alone and everybody in my situation goes through different things..just because the show is’nt shaming or putting pregnant teens down doesnt nessesarily mean that it glamorizes them nor there situation.
how can you people be SO damn cruel? being a teen mother myself, i understand all of the obstacles and all of the stress it may put on ANY person. just because they are “teen parents” does not mean they are NOT capable of being an amazing parent. both of my parents were very unprepared, and not EVEN sixteen when my sister was born and then nine months and five days later here i came…it may not have been a responsible decision but they did what they had to do and i couldnt imagine my life being any better than it is… they are SIXTEEN for the moment…they have years to get where they’re going and give their children everything they could ever imagine. i’m not saying all a child needs is love, but it’s something when you dont have too much to offer. i’m seventeen years old and i have a beautiful 10 month old baby girl, it’s extremly stressful, and tiring and you just take it as it comes but it’s the most amazing feeling in the world to know that that little person is yours! i may not have much to offer my baby, but i can promise you that she will always have someone to talk to and someone to listen…she will always have my support, and i will never let her go hungry and she will always have a place to stay. YES BOYS ARE BUTT HEADS! my boyfriend is twenty two years old. we’ve been together three years and he has still YET to grow up, but i stick with him because i honestly do love him. i know that things are extremly tough right now, but i have faith and i do believe that we’ll make it through the rain to see the sun shine…i think the girls need some positive outlook and positive opinions being thrown their way… there’s no use sitting here bagging on them and what they do and how they do it… everything happens for a reason so stop bashing them
ii loooove watchiing teen moms ii hope the show will continue:)
Hey I just wanted to say that I know how you girls feel I was a teen mom twice! My kids dad and I had been together since 6th grade we went through a lot then wen I was 15 we got pregnant with our son, but 2 weeks before I went into labor I had found out he cheated on me wen I was 5 months pregnant! So we were broke up when I gave birth to my son 2 weeks after my 16th b-day, then I tried working things out with him for our son but it just wasn’t going well bc he wouldn’t help me with our son, he cussed me all the time, tried to make me feel like I wasn’t worth anything,then when my son was 4 months old we accidentally got pregnant with my daughter, my whole pregnancy was a lot of arguing and hopelessness then a month after I gave birth to my daughter I got the nerve up to break up with him and then he tried killing himself, which he didn’t succeed in doing it, he just really messed himself up and had a lot of hospital bills. Now I will be 21 in jan 2011 and my son will be 5 on feb 6 2011 and my daughter will be 4 on march 15 2011. I did graduate highschool, held a job since I was 14 and I am attending college now! Times were so rough but I toughed it out and worked my butt off so my kids can have a beautiful life! I just bought a house for me and my kids this year june 2011, and we’re doing great! Needless to say me and their father have been broke up ever since my daughter was a month old which has been bout 4 years ago! And by the way he still has grown up and has another kid with another girl whom he’s also not with anymore. So girls be safe and nomatter how well you think you knw someone you can never be sure!
Typo I meant I bought our in june 2010:)
I know how hard it is to be a pregnant teen. I had my oldest when I was 19. I had no support through my pregnancy because I didn’t tell anyone that I was pregnant. I did graduate high school and graduate from college. I also went and got a graduate degree. So I will tell you being a teen mother is hard but you can accomplish any dream you have for yourself. I will say I couldn’t have done anything without the support of my mother after she finally found out that I was pregnant.