Britney Spears' kid sister and Nickelodeon's Zoey 101 star, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn, is pregnant. She told the press, "I definitely don't think [premarital sex]'s something you should do; it's better to wait...but I can't be judgmental because it's a position I put myself in." She's choosing to keep the baby; the child's father is 19 years old and may be charged with statutory rape, yet so far the media has not blatantly judged him like it has Spears. It's awful the media is making such a hoo-hah about this, and it's terrible the internet is filled with angry folk planning to boycott her show because now they have to give their kids the sex talk. Big whoop. No denying that Jamie Lynn is a marketed, edited, product, but she is a person, not a TV character.
"Responsibility" is the key word thrown around like a bomb, but in my opinion, it's irrelevant. The fact is, Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant, it's her family's business, and throwing around blame and shame won't pay for an abortion, a plane flight to an adoptive family, or a college education. Society should be more concerned about the other pregnant girls, the girls without a lucrative television career to tend to the expenses that come with pregnancy/abortion/childbirth.
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I think Jamie Lynn is actually being MORE responsible by holding herself up and taking the press head-on. Compared to Brit, Jamie Lynn has her act together, even with the baby. I'm sure Spears Junior will be a MUCH better mother and a responsible one at that.
Since Jamie Lynn Spears is also a known, pretty respected person, this also brings into the mainstream how pregnant teenagers should be treated equally to all other women and how discrimination against them is merely an offshoot of discrimination against women in general.
ah...there are millions of young girls in jamie lynns position. it is ultimatly her choice on what to do with the baby. i guess jamie lynn should have maybe thought more about what she repressents and the young veiwers of her show before making her choice.
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