…however, the news that Nickelodeon is considering a show dealing with the subject of sex and love just makes me groan.
Their absolutely ludicrous treatment of the subject of youth romance with the inane, pointless Naked Brothers Band alone should warn parents about the “value” of anything else Nick execs might have to say on the topic. And to make matters worse, Britney seems to be in denial about the whole thing.*
As for the entire Spears family:
- I can’t imagine anyone being surprised by the news in the first place;
- What sort of a sad commentary is it that the Spears are apparently distraught because they were relying on Jamie to provide the family with income — I mean, how hard is it to get a job at Wal-Mart?; and
- A sixteen-year-old girl is pregnant. Under virtually any other circumstance this would not be news; but apparently the topic of sex is just too delicate for some parents to cope with. Parents who are worried about talking to their kids on the subject might just need to do a little growing up of their own first.
It appears the train wreck of the Spears franchise is just going to continue.
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* Though, given her tenuous grip on reality of late, this isn’t exactly surprising either.
I know I couldn’t care any less about all of this, but I’ll give it a shot…I’m a father and I’ll put on my dad 9to two daughter’s, no less) glasses…
[ENGAGE S TREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS MODE]
*click* *whirrrr…*
So I guess birth control is NOT one of the subjects covered in Zoey 101…???
So I guess we may be able to expect “A Very Special Episode of Blossim…er…I mean, Zoey 101…”???
:D
Actually, I’m sick of it aready to!!!
But if TEENick had any balls, they’d work it in…likely…well, if this were Disney, they have that whole “wholesome” image, so they’d make Britney mk2 an unperson. But the is TEENick, and they do carry stuff like “Degrassi Jr High”, (er, *don’t* they?) so teen/pre-teen knocked-uped-ed-ness might not be all that risky a programming/subject matter…
So if handled with proper dignity and respect and gravitas…
Wait.
Who am I kidding? rotfl:
But,this reminds me of some more So stuff….
One of my few friends up here in the 10th Circle of Hell is the librarian/library staff/admin/bottle-washer in a nearby town (which shall remain nameless)…she’s a very intelligent woman, but when she was 16 herself, she got pregnant her boyfriend.
Who was *25*.
That would be a “Get Into jail Free” card in this day and age and in most places in the USA, but in this really rural slice of America, it’s not so uncommon. So they married.
That would be a recipe for disaster in most cases (16yo’s getting married - the AoC for that here, is common, but 99.9% of those marriages wind up exactly how ya’d expect) but here it is now 20-something years later and they are still *happily* married and have 4 other kids and one grandkid.
But this woman is, as I said, very intelligent and as she puts it herself,was “very mature for a 16 year-old” (despite the decision to bear a child at 16 which seems to signal otherwise!)…tis lady was ready to have a child, and had (has) the brains and maturity and commitment and dedication and *emotional and situational stability* to make it work.
Britney’s sister on the other hand?
I am just not filled with confidence given what I know about the family this child comes from.
In fact, I heard on NPR that Brit’s sis has been living with her boyfriend.
Since she was *14*.
WTF!?
Where were hr parents in all of this?
I know that when I was a 17yo young man, if a attractive (to me) and unsupervised 14yo female was allowed to live with me…yeah, I’d be shopping for a bassinet by the time I turned 19 as well!!!
So yeah (and I’m one to talk, I am the KING of the fucked-up life0 but with decisions like that I don’t exactly feel inspired with confidence that this girl is making the best,most considered and thought-out decisions for herself.
I mean, either this was an accident, in which case it beggs the question “Was this one of those 1-in-a-million rare BC failures”…or did we even *use* birth control to begin with here?
And some say maybe she did this tio break away from her controlling mother. Great. But where there maybe other less fundamentally life-altering and irreversible ways to do that?
Like…I dunno…just walking away?
Because she has likely already cost herself her tv show - her carrier (so who supports this kid now?) by doing this. And it will likely derail the college plans she announced she had for next year.
I hope - for this child’s sake - it works out somehow.
Either that, it a law is passed that prevents the Spears’ family from breeding!!
Anyway, that’s my $0.02.
’cause like I said, I really don’t care and am sick of this story by now.
That’s why I wrote all of this so i could hake it clear precisely how much I don’t care!
*ROTFL*!!! (Yeah, I *need* a life, I know!)
- ttc
Warren you still alive???
Yeah, neither the holidays nor the bout with the flu took me out. Better luck next time, viruses! Ha ha ha ha ha hahahaha!