Any "Teen Mom" or "16 and Pregnant" Viewers?

I think shows such as this....perpetuate the issues. Stop watching them & they'll go away.....& then those girls can get some real help.

I refuse to waste a moment of my life on a show like this.

I think that, even though it might show the hardship of being pregnant at 16, there is still the drama and the attention that girls receive because they got knocked up. Sorry, getting pregnant at 16 isn't a good idea for anyone, yet in many ways this show seems to glamorize premarital sex and pregnancy, even if it just means "hey, I got on tv because I'm young and pregnant".

I got so hooked on the show last season and just so incrediably sad as to what the magazines are saying about these girls and where they are at in life.

i watch it. i think it is a good way to show teens that its hard to be a teen parent. teen pregnancy isnt going to stop no matter what happens. some teens have a root issue thinking a baby will give them love someone else doesnt, they get lazy with condoms or they just plain want a baby for some reason. it shows that this can happen to anyones teen.

Sorry, can't bring myself to waste an hour of my life on a show that's giving attention to kids having kids. Personally, I think it's pretty pathetic.

Yep....it's the "don't do this" in my house. I yip yap so much about consequences with my 17 year old daughter and she certainly doesn't think this would be cool or a great thing to do at all. People are different, we choose not to live like that. My daughter knows she was born to a very young, very ill-prepared mother (my sister) and is so thankful that we took her in as ours at ten days old.

Why do you keep on watching it??

Nope - had to get rid of cable last year. and the year before that had my own 41 and pregnant/midlife mom drama that I couldn't handle those shows!

I was 21 when my daughter was born. I was married before I was pregnant; just happened to get pregnant a few years earlier than planned :) I was finishing up college (had to go back to finish student teaching a week after DD was born) and I just remember how freaked out I was all of the time. I had amazing support from mom and mil (both drove over 4 hours to come watch DD three times a week while I was at the school teaching), and luckily my husband had/has a really great, nice paying engineering job. Even with all that, just being that young....most days I'm still freaked out :) I could NOT imagine doing that at 16 and with the support (or lack of) those girls have.

Movies like Texas Chainsaw massacre freak me out. Simple rememedy. I don't watch stuff like that.

I used to watch it until a couple of episodes. The episode literally made me sick to my stomach and since then I can't watch it anymore. The girl had twins and her boyfriend was not accepted by her family. They got into a big fight while they were driving in the car. He kicked her out of the car, grabbed her around the waist (after a c-section) and then sped off in the rain with the babies in the car. I was so scared for those babies! My husband happened to be in the room while this episode was on...and he was livid! No more for me!

Exactly! Me too. 39 and I felt ill-prepared.
It's a train wreck.

I did not know about this show until I was flipping channels sick one day....and it just made me scream the world is going to hell in a handbasket...

This is a horrible role model for teens, as they are already living in a grandiose mind set about themselves due to a basic lack of maturity and their hormones raging, and then they 'get a chance' to be on TV....it's a disaster for such helpless and innocent babies involved.

I only saw part of one show and had to stop because I literally started hating the pathetic, enabling mother of pregnant teen....it was all about...what do you want honey...you have to think about the delivery options honey....and the girl was full of a spiteful attitude towards her mom....I would have booked the next flight to some 3rd world African country for a daughter who treated me like that so she can see how other poor women contend with giving birth in substandard conditions.

It's a sick show. If we all stop watching, we can stop glamorizing this condition.

However, the show can be viewed as a tool to teach teens about the reality of birthing babies too young...so I also see the good side to watching other people suffer and make terrible choices.

Haha, I just watched it. Its very hard to watch, not sure why I even do, but that girls mom was ridiculous!

I hate to admit that I watch this show but it is a sad reality for many teens. I watch hoping they will make better choices for themselves and those innocent babies.

I've watched 16 and pregnant a few times. It was just appalling how bratty some of the girls acted to the parents that are helping them or the guy just bails. Teen mom, hell no... to me, that show is ridiculous.... hey get pregnant and be famous. Some of those moms shouldn't even have their kids.

While I don't particularly care for 16 and pregnant, I WILL go buy the worst portraying shows (where the girls are having the worst time) and if my daughter starts getting silly as a teen she can watch it lol. If I watched that at 15 I can tell ya I would've been a hell of a lot more careful. I have watched some that show how the mom gets up every other hour and that'll be one of em I buy for my daughter should she get boy insane.

I could have written the same thing. Every week it feels more and more bleak. :(

i love those shows. kinda like guilty pleasures.
i also encourage my teenager to watch them and we discuss it while watching it. how hard these girls have it and how the guy pretty much NEVER sticks around.
i don't know why i like it...i just do...

My silly curiosity draws me to it. I don't think teens should be allowed to watch it. Regardless of the fact that most of these girls end up alone, it still glorifies teen pregnancy. And then the see these girls go on to become "celebrities" and hear how much they earn to continue on these shows. WRONG.
I was a teen mom, there was NOTHING cool, glamorous, or fun about it. Our society is really twisted. Lets see more shows about humanitarians, who travel to ravaged towns due to floods, tornadoes, etc. People who make it their mission to help others in need. THATS what our kids need to see. THOSE people deserve a celebrity status. Not teenage moms and the dead beat dads

I happened to see it a few times when my daughter was here and I thought it was pretty stupid, and childish, crazy promotion of something that shouldnt happen.. But then I saw a similar problem/personaity with one of the gals on the show in comparison to my daughter and her situation and got more interested in it hoping she would see the similarities and maybe it would help,,, but nooo. And then the one gal beat up her babys father and now shes in big legal trouble in her real real life too. Havent seen it since.