Monday, 5 March 2012

Glamourization of the "Teen Mom"

I can't say I have ever actually watched the shows like "Teen Mom" or "16 and Pregnant," but I seem to hear an awful lot about these young women. Without even having seen these shows I know what these girls look like, how many kids they've had, rumours of them being pregnant again, and if they're married (and filing for divorce soon after). Pictures of these young women are plastered onto the front of tons of magazines, they get put on TV, and everyone knows about them. In my opinion, this is showing girls an easy way to get famous is to get pregnant! From the magazines I have seen, these girls pose basically as models, with their adorable babies, in nice places. I think that whole picture is ridiculous. I do not think that being a teen mom should be glamourized. I can't say from experience or anything, but I think that having a child at such a young age would be anything but glamourous. Babies are a lot of work, they're expensive, and require constant attention, which in my mind, an average teenager cannot provide very well. I think that showing these stories of teen moms creates a bad image for young girls, because it honestly appears to look fun. They get their pictures on the covers of magazines, hollywood style lives and have cute babies. Maybe the producers of these types of shows will understand the wrongful image they are creating when someday they ask their little girl what she wants to be when she grows up, and she replies with, "a teen mom!"

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