Teen Mom

No prologue, just diving in.


I don't understand why people are against the show Teen Mom.
Yes they're teenagers having children
Yes, its a bad choice.
Maybe it glorifies having sex and ending up with a kid.

Let me throw out an idea I thought was obvious. They're gonna do it anyway!
***This is in no way meant to be offensive, it's what my personal feelings are on the subject.

If your child has no morals and decides to be a slut when they're 15 then that's kind of your problem. You should have raised them better. Granted a teenager is going to do what ever they want, but if you teach them about abstinence, condoms and birth control, and the consequences of not practicing safe sex and/or no sex they're most likely going to make better choices.

"But they should know about those kinds of things already. I heard they teach that in school."

Most likely your child goes to a public school, I was fortunate enough to go to a great public school, public schools are NOTORIOUS for saying they teach when in all actuality they don't. Don't count on your child's school to do YOUR job as a parent.

Fact: The last part of a child's (including a teenager) brain to develop is the frontal lobe. The frontal lobe is where we reason with consequences. As adults-most of us, can choose not to do something because we see that there are consequences of doing said action.
A teenager has not developed that part of their brain fully so they cannot make proper choices for themselves. You, as a parent, must step up to the title and act like a parent, not a friend.


Teen Mom shows what it's like to have a child at such a young age, you have to live on your own, if your family isn't supportive, the father almost always leaves. True love doesn't exist at 15. Some times you have to put your child up for adoption which is hard enough, so being a child going through that, I can't begin to imagine what that feels like.

Stop saying Teen Mom glorifies teenage pregnancy.

"Teen pregnancy is 100% preventable." I believe MTV states this after every commercial break, but it shouldn't be their job to tell your child. You need to.

Grow up and be a parent. A parent of YOUR child, not everyone else's.