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Why are these young women stars? First, teen moms are hawt! They’ve held a prurient fascination ever since Jamie Lynn Spears and Bristol Palin’s pregnancies were revealed in 2007 and 2008. But while Spears and Palin were already famous, the “Teen Mom” stars have real struggles.
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Another reason for the cast’s popularity is their incredible ability to make news, on and off the air. Amber set off a controversy after episodes showed her hitting Gary and attempting to kick him down a flight of stairs. She is now being investigated for domestic abuse.
- Kanika Vaish on 14 Nov 10
  
  The show generates a lot of attention from its drama - on-and-off relationships, problems with parents, etc.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The show generates a lot of attention from its drama - on-and-off relationships, problems with parents, etc.</div>
  
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While MTV tries desperately to portray “Teen Mom” and “16 and Pregnant” as simply day-in-the-life type shows, like glorified episodes of “True Life,” it is evident that these shows are every bit as preachy as “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” an ABC Family show that is just raging with pro-life messages and Christian value undertones.
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While MTV’s tactic is meant to be a subliminal public service announcement, having the teen moms repeatedly talk about their inability to practice safe sex (with most girls blaming their boyfriends for not wanting to use condoms) and crying about how they just want to party like regular teens just makes the girls look like buffoons and exposes them for the naïve children they really are.
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With TV fare like MTV’s “Teen Mom,” Lifetime’s new movie “The Pregnancy Pact” and ABC Family’s “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” maybe we’re just feeding young girls ideas! While she does admit that these shows do not make teen pregnancy out to be much of a treat, it worries her that they depict pregnancy as “in some ways an enhancement of the teen mom’s social life.”
- Kanika Vaish on 14 Nov 10
  
  Too many shows about teenage pregnancy are resulting in these lives being glamorized in real life.
  
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The Guttmacher Institute report that actually revealed the increase did not show that teen pregnancies went up five minutes after Lifetime aired “The Pregnancy Pact,” rather, they went up in 2006 – the most recent year for which current statistics on teenage pregnancies, births and abortions are available.
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