
MTV’s new documentary series titled ’16 And Pregnant’ follows the life of several pregnant teenage girls during a 5 to 7 month period offering a different perspective on teen pregnancy.
This new “reality” series is supposed to show the different challenges the young moms-to-be have to face (marriage, adoption, religion, gossip, finances, rumors, graduating high school, getting or losing a job) and how they are struggling to provide the best for their children.
We hope teenagers don’t start to get pregnant just to appear on the show… it’s a dangerous subject plus I don’t think this is the best approach to prevent teen pregnancy!
The first mom is Maci from Tennessee, who was a model student, player softball and was a cheerleader before getting pregnant, has to transfer to another school and deal with a new life living with her baby’s daddy Ryan.
Maci says: “I think I’ve made the right decisions the whole way, but I guess if I had to say, the hardest thing would probably be just having to … miss out on a teenage life, and having to replace things that I would normally worry about, like what I’m going to wear to the football game on Saturday, [with] how I’m going to pay the electric bill.”
Maci and Ryan have the help of their parents and seem to be learning a lot after the birth of their baby Bentley (yep, like the car! Ryan is a mechanic!). Do you think this type of “documentary” will prevent teen pregnancy or will just encourage young girls to start a family sooner??
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