Another pregnant Spears!
I know, I know you’re probably tired of hearing it by now but Jamie Lynn Spears, younger sister of Britney Spears, is pregnant. I wasn’t going to post on this because why should I fuel the media by posting about the hottest news which everyone is already sick of hearing about? But I have an opinion and I’m going to state my opinion.
We all know the whirlwind of a life Britney Spears has been living the past few years but not much has really been heard about her sister Jamie Lynn who is sixteen until this point. She is best known for her acting job on the hit show Zoey 101 – so maybe she is more popular than one might think but with a younger audience since the show is a Nickelodeon show. I’ve seen the show before because I have a younger sister and it really isn’t all that bad, I think Jamie just like her sister has her own talents and it’s great that she’s pursuing the career she wants. However, now that she is pregnant there is a question to be posed – does she get fired, should she get fired? I don’t think she should, she just as any other female, as a right to live her life the way she chooses and while she may only be sixteen she made an irresponsible choice. Does this send the wrong message to young viewers saying “hey Jamie Lynn from Zoey 101 did it, so can I”? Perhaps it does but I think it says more about the parenting of said children than it does about the television shows children are watching.
I realize that the media influences everyone in different ways and I realize it is something that no matter how hard we try to get away from, we just can’t. It influences the products we buy, the products we don’t buy, the movies we go see in the theaters, the clothing we wear, the clothing we don’t wear, what is hot and what is not – media influences everything BUT you are in control of your mind, you are also in control of the decisions you make and if you let the media influence you so much to the point that you say “omg…like Jamie Lynn got pregnant, I’m going too also” there is something wrong. There is also something wrong with the parenting of said child who think this way – some children are too young to understand the concept of sex and babies but if a child is seriously thinking about sex/babies at age nine, eleveen or whatever the ages are of the people watching Zoey 101 then something is seriously wrong.
Maybe I just firmly believe that everyone makes their choices based on what they believe is wrong and right rather than what the media portrays to be wrong or right. Maybe because I’ve never felt really influenced by the media (aside from products I might buy) that others are the same – I know this isn’t correct but I would like to believe that people honestly don’t follow the influence of the media as much as they might. And while Jamie Lynn is sixteen, pregnant and has decided to keep the baby she should be treated no differently than any other sixteen year old that is pregnant or will get pregnant. If you leave out the fact that she is a Spears, if you leave out the fact that she is a celebrity, all that is left is an ordinary sixteen year old capable of making decisions just as any other sixteen year old. There is no reason to go back and forth in a blame game because what is done is done there is no going back and changing what mother nature has decided upon, however it makes me question the parenting of Spears’ parents as well as her own decision making. And while I can only speak for myself and it’s quite contradicting for me to say one shouldn’t be having sex at sixteen since I was only fifteen when I started having sex – I do believe that she could have been smarter about it and maybe she was…but that’s a private matter that none of us will ever know about.
In the end, from one human being to another, from one female to another, I hope that she doesn’t make the same decisions her sister has as far as drinking, partying, and drugs goes and is a good mother to her child.
Tags: Britney Spears, Entertainment, Jamie Lynn Spears, Pregnancy
December 19th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
We can certainly hope she doesn’t end up doing what her sister did in terms of her child(ren). I’m not exactly the one to determine when people should and shouldn’t have sex, I was active at 15 but my mom knew I was dating so I was also on birth control. Doing it is one thing, responsibly is another. That’s where my big thing comes up.. not to mention her mother allowed her to live with her 19 yr old boyfriend. Bad parenting on that part hugely.