http://www.jedimom.net/2007/12/28/the-marketing-of-teen-pregnancy/ A Mom's Take on Marketing Targeting Kids Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:42:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/ http://www.jedimom.net/2007/12/28/the-marketing-of-teen-pregnancy/#comment-300 Lisa Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:47:10 +0000 http://www.jedimom.net/2007/12/28/the-marketing-of-teen-pregnancy/#comment-300 @Debbie Thanks for your comments! You're right about the unrealistic experience of motherhood. How many unwed pregnant teens are going to have a nanny, housekeeper, private tutor, etc. I agree that it's just as important that we teach sexual responsibility to our sons as well as our daughters. As parents we've got to do more to turn the tide. The United States leads all developed nations in Teen Pregnancy. It shouldn't be a source of national pride. @Debbie Thanks for your comments! You’re right about the unrealistic experience of motherhood. How many unwed pregnant teens are going to have a nanny, housekeeper, private tutor, etc.
I agree that it’s just as important that we teach sexual responsibility to our sons as well as our daughters. As parents we’ve got to do more to turn the tide. The United States leads all developed nations in Teen Pregnancy. It shouldn’t be a source of national pride.

]]> http://www.jedimom.net/2007/12/28/the-marketing-of-teen-pregnancy/#comment-299 Debbie Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:02:12 +0000 http://www.jedimom.net/2007/12/28/the-marketing-of-teen-pregnancy/#comment-299 Hey JediMom! What a great blog. Let me say that with what you have stated you are right on target. Teen pregnancy is very "jazzied" up by hollywood and others with enough money to hire the help that is needed to let these kids "off the hook" so to speak. Not only JL Spears but others who have the nannies and cooks and bodyguards etc.... to come in and take over so that the parenting duties are not in the resume of their lives yet they will be afforded the opportunity to take the credit for it. I am the mother of 3 kids (1 - girl 2- boys) My daughter is now 22. She became pregnant at 18 and I as a mother who did talk and talk and talk to her about it still felt as though I didn't do enough! She had finished HS and already a semester at college when she found herself pregnant with twins no less!! Eventhough she is doing well as a mother I was determined that SHE was the mother and I would be there p.r.n. I was not going to "take over" she was going to find out on her own that her actions would now require her to change the course of her own life (as hard as that was for me) I knew it was the best course of action I could take to benefit her at that time. My boys are now 15 and 12 and I try even harder to make sure that they know the consequences of sex and life and to keep there heads in the right direction. I don't believe that the boys have any less responsibility than do the girls. (This is also a problem in society whereas the male figures are not held as responsible by parents nor society in the same actions as the female). I don't have any good places to seek answers for this problem other than eachother's advice and sticking together to help our now generation - education is the tool (FOR BOYS AND GIRLS) and maybe if more parents like us would stay involved and not be afraid to talk to our kids - not make the "hollywood life" so glamorous... and if our kids make a mistake - make them own it, then maybe we have some sort of shot at cutting down on the teen pregnancy epidemic we seem to have in this world today. Thanks for listening! Hey JediMom!
What a great blog. Let me say that with what you have stated you are right on target. Teen pregnancy is very “jazzied” up by hollywood and others with enough money to hire the help that is needed to let these kids “off the hook” so to speak. Not only JL Spears but others who have the nannies and cooks and bodyguards etc…. to come in and take over so that the parenting duties are not in the resume of their lives yet they will be afforded the opportunity to take the credit for it. I am the mother of 3 kids (1 - girl 2- boys) My daughter is now 22. She became pregnant at 18 and I as a mother who did talk and talk and talk to her about it still felt as though I didn’t do enough! She had finished HS and already a semester at college when she found herself pregnant with twins no less!! Eventhough she is doing well as a mother I was determined that SHE was the mother and I would be there p.r.n. I was not going to “take over” she was going to find out on her own that her actions would now require her to change the course of her own life (as hard as that was for me) I knew it was the best course of action I could take to benefit her at that time. My boys are now 15 and 12 and I try even harder to make sure that they know the consequences of sex and life and to keep there heads in the right direction. I don’t believe that the boys have any less responsibility than do the girls. (This is also a problem in society whereas the male figures are not held as responsible by parents nor society in the same actions as the female). I don’t have any good places to seek answers for this problem other than eachother’s advice and sticking together to help our now generation - education is the tool (FOR BOYS AND GIRLS) and maybe if more parents like us would stay involved and not be afraid to talk to our kids - not make the “hollywood life” so glamorous… and if our kids make a mistake - make them own it, then maybe we have some sort of shot at cutting down on the teen pregnancy epidemic we seem to have in this world today. Thanks for listening!

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