Surviving the Domestic Jungle

I have read so many things about the “Teen Mom” show recently that I have to comment on some things that have been said. I personally watch the show every week and I also watch ’16 and Pregnant’. I find those shows so fascinating because you literally have these little girls who are pregnant and yet worried about prom and friends! Welcome to motherhood ladies! Hence, Teen Mom. It is the follow up to what happens after baby and it is not all cute and cuddly. It is so hard and I see these girls dealing with some major things at an age where you really aren’t equipped to deal with it. This season, there is a girl Leah, who had TWINS and one of the twins has health problems and I just cry every time I see her story because I cant imagine going through that as an adult! Some of the teen moms amaze me with the kind of mothers they become and some just disgust me (Janelle, Amber!!) Kim Kardashian made some comments about the show being bad and not to idolize those girls blah blah blah. Shut up Kim!! Go make a sex tape or perhaps pose in playboy! Don’t judge people when you are not a role model or someone to be idolized yourself. Teen pregnancy has been going on for a long time before this show and will continue to happen regardless of television shows. How do we prevent teen pregnancy? I don’t know if you can. Most of the girls on the show say they knew about birth control and how you get pregnant but still did it unprotected anyway. I guess the key is never leaving your kids alone with a boy/girl! Bottom line is, I don’t think the show is promoting teen pregnancy. I think if anything it gives a very realistic example of how hard it can be. Especially for Leah with her sick twin! This season is better than the last one as the issues are way deeper meaning they are showing Janelle fight with her mother for custody (Go mom on that one!) and Leah with a sick baby and Kailyn having no where else to live but with her ex boyfriends parents! These girls have tough things to deal with where the other girls all have families with money (or MTV is paying them well) and they focused more on relationships and trying to date while a mother and it just didn’t have the eye opening sad stories that this season does. They also did a special where one of the moms became pregnant within a year of her baby being born and she got an abortion. I know (for some reason) abortion is a taboo topic but girls out there need to know ALL their options and I think it is great what MTV is doing by bringing all these topics to light. Through awareness comes change and maybe by MTV showing all of these girls struggling, then more girls will protect themselves and we can prevent teenagers from having to make grown up choices.