Baby Mom -- Baby Dad

...As in a mother/father who is basically still a baby, too young for a baby. I'm watching TV right now and I feel compelled to blog about the issue.

With teen pregnancy on the rise and no longer such a taboo issue as it has been in the past, it's kind of hard to ignore; especially with it plastered all over the media with shows like Teen Mom on MTV and we all know about Jamie Lynn Spears and Bristol Palin. It's hard to imagine anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the issue.

I can applaud teens for owning up to their actions and taking complete responsibility, but when they don't, where does it stop? You have some girls and guys out there who aren't 20 yet and have 3 or 4 kids already. Who takes the blame? Who's responsibility is it? Is it society's fault or are we going to pin it on the parents? Why aren't we faulting these kids, these baby moms and dads? I know one thing, we can't blame the media for this problem, or any other problem in our society.

What completely blows me away is the fact that people want to place blame in the media. I've heard people say that watching Teen Mom makes teens want to go out there and have babies. Stop depending on the TV to raise your kids! Frankly, watching this show makes me gag. This shows does not inspire me to want to go have a baby or be anything related to the nature of a mother. Anyone who says they do after watching, is clearly missing out on reality. I think this show does a good job of depicting how hard it is to be a parent at such a young age. Some of these girls in the beginning have the idea that they're still going to hang out and party or have anything resembling a social life. LIE. These girls figure out pretty quick that everything they do or associate with has to revolve around their baby. Anything that isn''t going to help them be a good mother has to be let go. Seeing the difference in these girls between Season 1 and Season 2, it's pretty obvious the lessons they've learned. It's unbelievable how much they've been forced to grow up in such a short amount of time as a consequence of their actions. But that's what happens when you don't use condoms,kids.

Yes, of course, we can have better sex education courses in schools or less sex depicted in the media, and blah, blah, blah. SURE. The most important thing is that parents need to do the parenting; not the media, not school, not their peers. anything kids learn, parents need to be the first teacher.

Please watch Teen Mom with adult supervision and use condoms when necessary.

~LaDai