[NEWS] Spears family screwed?
 

In a recent interview, it's been revealed that JAMIE-LYNN SPEARS is 12 weeks pregnant, at the mere age of 16. The father is a 19-year-old she met at church.

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It's just sad. No family, regardless of fame, deserves to go through difficulties like this.

Jamie-Lynn seemed quite happy about the baby news. It looks like she's gonna keep her baby and she's really positive about. Her mom seems quite alright with it too. Oh well, as long as she's happy I guess. But I think it's quite stupid of her though. Geez, she's just 16 years old. 16!

It's so ironic... she met the guy in a church. LOL.

You guys are surprised to see a girl who's 16 years old pregnant? :eek As a doctor, I actually made an appointment to a 9-years old girl who was pregnant. Now that's what was surprising/shocking. 16 years old pregnant girls? I've lost the count of how many of those I had to give prenatal assistance :laugh

Also, who cares anyway? It's her life. She was careless, yeah, but w/e

Yeah, I know it's not the appropriate age and should be discouraged...but here in Brazil it is so common, is not even shocking at all.

what she´s pregnant!? o,o

I found this out yesterday and when I rushed to tell my brother he said, "Everyone was talking about that like a week ago".

I can't believe it though. She is absolutely too young. At least where I'm from, teenage pregnancy is extremely uncommon. A 16 year old found pregnant would be like the shocker of the century, so this is really surprising. That family really is screwed.

...wasn't there already a post on this somewhere? :yconfused

It's not our problem, and it's not that common in this day of age; but as a celebrity with her own TV show on Nickelodeon I think she should be a better role model. :/ How the heck did she even get that job in the first place?? She's a terrible actress. XP

:roflmao

I agree with Bondie though but I'm use to 16 year-olds getting pregnant. I'm went to a school full of pregnant teenagers. I felt like a was at a hospital. :laugh Teenage pregnancy is high amoung African-Americans, so finding out that a girl is pregnant is a "yea, whatever!" with me.

I was surprised that Jamie is pregnant when I first heard about it because she always seems like a good girla nd never put herself in that situation. I'm over it and if she's happy with having a baby at a young age then fine by me. I going to look down on her thought because she should be a shamed of ending her "life" so short. I'ma selfish 18 year-old and I don't have time to take care of a child.

My mum's 29 and I'm 14. You do the math. I don't see anything wrong with it really, if they decided they wanted to have a baby then so be it. It's their life.

^ I doubt they "decided on it" ..

^ Hmmm, who knows? Or maybe she'll reveal it all for a large amount of money in a few days, in the magazines.

^ maybe. I hope they can handle it though, for the sake of the child. It all depends on the person.. some 16 year olds can take better care of a child than some 30 year olds.

I don't think Jamie decided to have a baby...she just got knocked up by a 19 year old 'highschool sweetheart', and we allll know how the majority of those relationships end. I was watching Chelsea Lately last night and they said some pretty mean things about this! But I think Americans have become desensitized to a lot of stuff now, so nobody is really trying to help the teenage pregnancy issues, and it's huge. You'd think something like this would cause an uproar for major changes and making a point how education for these young women are ruined because they get pregnant too young and their lives change. Seen it happen to much when I was in highschool and I'd never see those girls again, and they become stay-at-home mothers ..American economy is really shot right now too, so having more babies isn't really helping, and now we have a role model to young girls getting pregnant...It's disappointing. Hopefully everyone will just brush the issue off as 'That crazy Spears family!' and not get influenced by this.

Sorry I rambled too much lol

I'm glad somebody can look deeper into the issue rather than only focusing on the "good x evil" + "role model" fairy tale crap that is shoved by media's sensationalism.

She has the means to take care of the baby, I'm pretty sure she has more money than the average american household. hasn't she been doing tv her whole teenage life? I heard she has been paid millions for her interviews.
She can have the baby, if that whats she wants then good luck for her & the baby I suppose.

I'm personally only againts teen pregnancies when the mothers don't have the means to properly take care of the baby. as long as the baby is fed & clothed & loved properly I don't really care if the how old the mum is ...

actually constant popularity growth benefits the economy, plenty of european countries (inlcuding mine) are facing major economical difficulties in the future because of the birth rate is negative

What I mean by the economy in the U.S, Halla, is that for these young girls getting pregnant by young men and leaving their education to take care of their baby makes it very hard for them to place better jobs when they get older. Most girls I knew only went for their GED and not diploma, and so their future careers are for low wage jobs, if they can get one that is. It's not healthy for the guy either, because he has to focus all his work on making enough income (especially if their parents aren't very supportive or are low income themselves, which is usually the case) to pay the bills and support their child. I don't want to get too off-topic, but right now in the U.S, jobs are hard to get for young people, and gas prices don't help much either for commute.

Now for planned parenting, girls who are in good financial standing and support, whatever age, I'm all for. I just think about the emotional impact it will have on young women and the health of their babies. I used to work at a place where lots of low income young mothers would come in with like, 4 kids, and paying with foodstamps because they couldn't afford to go shopping at places like Wal-mart or other grocery chains, so I see what it does to the younger generation when society overlooks things like this. It's not fair to them or their children who have to live off of really cheap food and live in more dangerous neighborhoods. But that's what happens when my society ignores ongoing problems like that.

I think I went way too off-topic, sorry.

Emphasis on the bold text. :laugh

And people are saying she's "responsible" unlike Britney? How do we know that she won't take good care of it or not?

Oh boy this is a good image for Nickelodeon. :roflmao

Oh because nickelodeon already had that really "good image" by featuring all those disgusting and violent cartoons.