NYT calls the Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy story "a teachable moment."
Well, yeah. As the father a teenage daughter and a teenage son, I think there is plenty for us to discuss.
NYT: "High school girls here wondered aloud on Thursday why no one was talking about contraception." That will certainly figure in our conversations.
Not sure I understand the Atrios position on this one -- yes, teenagers have sex and it's harmful to pretend they don't, but it's generally a bad thing when 16-year-olds get pregnant, and this strange family chose to sell the story of their pregnant child to the media, which would seem to undercut the outrage over people chiming in on the topic.
The fact that a young woman who plays a virgin on teevee got pregnant says less about the culture than the fact she's decided to play the whole thing out in public.
Why does everyone dance around the obvious -- those girls hate their mom. With a passive-aggressive passion.
Posted by: JAT | Dec 24, 2007 at 07:38 AM