[wagglebee]

Hollywood and the entertainment industry are selling their version of normal teenage expectation. Teen moms are, as Newsweek explained, "a hot plot device." Parents, you have been warned.

The problem is that most parents don't seem to care.

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[Borges]

Using something as a plot device is automatically endosing it? Has Jamie Lynn Spears ever actually been in a movie?

[JimSEA]

big parts of the story are being glossed over: how that baby bump came to be in the first place, and just how hard it'll be for a teen to raise a child.

The Hollywood crowd has become an American Aristocracy where family connections, ability to dominate and manipulate a compliant media determines membership. The aristocrats are shielded from much of the "unpleasantness" of being teen moms. Money is usually not a problem, they just have to pander to the press and occasionally forget their underwear. Usually there is no merit or intelligence involved in being an aristocrat. Their political and charity connections show that.

[antiunion person]

This phenomenon is being created by the libs and holly’weird’ libs to get prolong the welfare state so that political libs will get reelected by the idiots in this country. All the libs do in the career is go for more votes to get elected again (some republicans are the same way). But more times than none, the dems/libs go for the down and ignorant to vote for them. This is the time of the ‘get me what I want, not what I need’ era. Having all his kids shoot out more babies is just fulfilling at dem/lib's wet dream.

[Awestruck]

“and just how hard it’ll be for a teen to raise a child.”

It will be a walk in the park for Jamie Lynn.. she probably won’t have to touch the baby more than is necessary for publicity photos.. she has handlers, nannies, hangers on, etc to actually do the real life things involved in baby care.. she’ll never have to decide between baby food and doctor bills, she’ll never have to figure out how to put the landlord off for a few more days, or who’s going to watch the baby when she gets called into work a double shift because she needs the money. Those are the things no one in Hollywood talks about.

[autumnraine]

It’s great! Especially with all that money around so all you have to do is just live life as usualy and change a few diapers. Too bad most teenage mothers don’t have that luxery.

I don’t let my kids watch Zoe 101 anymore. I told them she might be perfect on that show, but I didnt’ want them to think she was a rolemodel either.

[ApplegateRanch]

Having been paid a cool million for rights to her bastard-making ‘story’, she can afford to be radiant & happy. Her adoring fans won't have that advantage, so any who emulate her are dooming themselves and their child to much less than an ideal, happy life.

Yes, I used ‘bastard’, and for a reason. It is the English word for what this behavior begets, and is not a pejorative of the child itself, who remains just that, a child. It is, however, a pejorative comment (how judgmental!) on the “parents” (partners in lust) and the parents’ thoughtless, careless, selfish actions.

It is something that was seen as a shameful act, but now thanks to Hollywood & the NBA, there is no shame, except the Left’s shaming of those of us who lament the passing of shame & morals.

The only way to take back the lost ground is to relentlessly publicly shame the publicly shameless.

Point & laugh, rather than celebrate the shameless.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

I have mixed feelings on this-at least she didn’t get an abortion, and the kid will never have to want for anything, due to the family money.