Teen Moms?! You Have Got to Be Kidding Me

This is what happens when you confuse reality stars for real stars. This is what happens to Gossip when you lower the celebrity bar.

Us Weekly and OK! magazine are featuring cast members from the show TEEN MOMS on their covers. This is what we’re selling now? I blame that Palin chick and Britney Spears kid sister for this (I cannot even remember their names, and I’m not even wasting my time looking it up). Teen pregnancy is preventable. Teen pregnancy should be avoided at all costs. It should not be glamorized in any fashion (Us Weekly is guiltier of this than OK! in this case).

I have a few friends who got knocked up during our high school years, and my god-daughter is the result of a teen pregnancy. I love her to death, she’s amazing and bright and funny. But if her mother had listened to all of us, (and by all I mean everyone except her illegal alien abusive father) she wouldn’t be here.

Her mom went through hell when she was pregnant. She had to change schools. People in our neighbourhood would stop her on the street and tell her off. And most of our friends stopped talking to her. Our parents thought teen pregnancy was contagious and they wanted no part of it. I'm not even going to go into the problems that having a kid with an @sshole causes.

Here’s the reality of teen moms. They don’t usually get paid to be on magazine covers. They don’t usually get to be stars of reality shows. But teen mothers are less likely to complete high school, (only one-third receive a high school diploma) and more likely to end up on welfare (nearly 80 percent of unmarried teen mothers end up on welfare). The children of teenage mothers have lower birth weights, are more likely to perform poorly in school, and are at greater risk of abuse and neglect. The sons of teen mothers are 13 percent more likely to end up in prison while teen daughters are 22 percent more likely to become teen mothers themselves.

This is what the majority of teen moms face. Not magazine covers, and certainly not paid appearances on DANCING WITH THE STARS.

When I grew up when AIDS was around but we thought only "those people" got it. I had no clue herpes and cold sores were related. And there certainly wasn’t any gonorrhoea of the throat in my high school (at least no one admitted to having it). But this is what young people face today in addition to unplanned pregnancy. We are also in an era where many people see fame as the end all be all, so if Us Weekly and OK! feel the need to put teen moms on their covers, might I suggest they kill the hair and make-up teams, and show the reality of the situation instead of this cleaned up f*ckery.

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