Teenage Pregnancy... blame movies!
*Note: This picture is my wife and new born daughter, my wife may look young but she is 25 in this picture.
I saw this article, Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High on Time.com this morning, and so many things jump out at me as absolutely crazy. This article is one of the reasons that fathers of daughters everywhere lose sleep.
Lets start at the top of the article and work our way down.
Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for glamorizing young unwed mothers.
I don't even know where to start with that quote. The media, and in this case some of these parents, always look for something to blame other than the parents of the children. Usually its video games, which I will get into in depth at some point, but I don't think there are any pregnant teens in GTA IV, so they are off the hook here. So they want to blame Knocked Up and Juno. Instead of looking in the mirror and saying did I teach my daughter about sex? Did I teach her about how much responsibility and work a child is? Have I provided a good example of how my child should act? They would rather say movies glamorous unwed mothers which is why a group of teens have decided to all have babies.