Posted on 02/11/2010 3:58:30 PM PST by wagglebee
My 21 yr old daughter watches it. I think it’s a good lesson. They certainly don’t glamorize teen parenthood, at least not the shows I’ve seen.
” Where are the abortions?” she complains. “If MTV really wanted to prove themselves as responsible programmers, they would also feature pregnant teens who have abortions.”
Hmmm...great programming. Let’s feature 5 girls that had an abortion. That would make riveting television.
I pray that she finds inner peace, knowing that the soul of her child forgives her for her past transgression.....precisely because of her remorse!
Militant
There are a few factors Ms. Valenti failed to consider about this particular show:
1) The casting process for MTVs reality programming works as most others...they put out a notice and filter out potential cast members from there. If pregnant teens who had or were going to have an abortion didn’t respond in numbers equal to those of other pregnant teens, the chances of their stories making it on air are less.
2) Most of the teens featured in the first season were well into their pregnancies. Also, labor, delivery, and early infancy were featured more than the pregnancies in many cases.
3) Appearing on the show requires parental consent. Take from that what you will...
4) On the follow up show “Teen Mom”, a few of the pregnant teens from “16 and Pregnant” are shown raising their babies or dealing with giving a baby up for adoption. One cannot be a Teen Mom if one never gave birth.
They actually have done a show on abstinence. It was part of their True Life series. And they used to feature cast members who practice abstinence on the Real World...although I doubt that’s the case now.
MTV needs to be aborted.
It is. On the first season of “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom”, they followed a couple named Catelynn and Tyler who made the decision together to put their baby up for adoption. I was taken aback at how mature and strong these two were, especially considering their parents negative reactions to adoption.
I actually found this show to be really honest and it’s a good tool for a counselor like myself to use in my work. I’ve had girls come to me after seeing the show with a lot of thoughts and questions they had never considered before regarding sex and relationships.
It recognizes the fact that young Americans are more pro-life than previous generations.
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Ironic. It almost seems that it took abortion, to stop abortion.
Yes, one of the girls and her boyfriend gave the baby up for adoption to a great family. They maintain contact with them, and the little girl is adorable. I commend them because I know I could personally never give my child up for adoption.
Actually it isn’t a bad show and for any teen who thinks she might want a child might open their eyes about how it is not such a great thing to go through so young. The girls all realize that they have given their lives up too young and they even have one couple who choose to put their baby up for adoption.
Your local Christian pregnancy center will have post abortion programs.
Contrary to what the feminists say, what your wife is experiencing is very real. Every maternal instinct she had was violated by that abortion.
But there is help and healing available.
My wife ran such a center for a dozen years. One woman who attended post abortion counseling had her abortion 40 years before, and it still bothered her.
She doesn’t have to carry this albatross around her neck forever.
We are too both Christians. I guess what she will ultimately need to do is fully embrace the fact she is forgiven and go from there. Where she gets that epiphany from will come from the Lord.
That is when you fully comprehend grace.
You are her spiritual umbrella.
Best to you both.
thanks for the feedback. I guess I should file it under “silver linings” or some such thing. Maybe “lesser evils.” Sort of like the “condom” approach to sex, though, isn’t it?
Yep, the title of the show is 16 and Pregnant. We caught it on a marathon showing and then watch the follow-up, Teen Mom, this season.
IMO, teen girls keeping their babies is no where near as bad as murdering their babies.
I thought it was a pretty good show, too.
I can't imagine what society will look like when this generation of children raised by children and a series of live-in boyfriends will look like in twenty years.
Adoption is fine if that is what the parents choose. It’s their decision. However, I don’t think adoption is a perfect thing, for the parents or the child.
I doubt I would have ever given away my child had I been in that position as a teen or unmarried woman. And, if one of my own children find themselves in that position, there’s no way I would suggest giving away family.
There’s no guarantee that the “stable, loving, married, heterosexual two parent family” will stay that way.
I think murdering an innocent child is a whole lot worse.
I get what you’re saying and I agree to an extent. We see what’s happening in certain segments of society. What’s more disturbing, imo, is how some families don’t take of their own, entitlement attitude, etc.
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