WTF was she thinking? (Page 2)

I can't help but feel that the mom made some sort of Faustian pact with Satan.

Summed up this way

Satan:   "You can have fame and fortune and lots of attention....but you and all your progeny will be stupid"

Ma Spears:  "Sounds good, Where do I sign?"

Satan: "Put your pawprint on this line here."

Oops they did it again

opps didn't see this thread before I started another one about this..

I"m surprised there isn't some weird outcry about the father/boyfriend being 19 and her being 16. Didn't some high school guy go to prision for sex with a minor? then just got released ?, not too sure on the entire details but I'm sure someone knows what I'm referring to

Or worse. You have to explain why her young wholesome role model is showing baby-bump. I only hope Nickelodean don't write it into the script.

That situation was because the adult male (18yo) was given consenual oral sex by a minor female (16yo).  If they had had regular intercourse, they would have been protected under "romeo and juliet" statutes, which do not protect in the case of oral sex.

Don't ask me why I know these things.  I watch way too much Court TV during the day.

As far as I know 16 y/o girls had made mistakes such as getting pregnant even before any popular TV shows were widely available to 10 y/o impressionable kids, hence I don’t think that a TV character represent by a real teenager should have much impact. After all isn’t the parents job to explain and teach kids to differentiate fiction from reality?

Of course not, they should be able to learn all they need from TV shows like Zoey 101! 

she's not the first young woman to get pregnant, it happens.  You may not like it, but it happens...

And she's only 11!  WOW, she's VERY bright!!!  Good for her!

Younger sister of a has been.

I couldn't agree with you more.  Any 10 yr old kid, including mine, who has been brought up well will know that Jamie Lynn Spears screwed up big time, and will forget next week that her favorite show has been cancelled.  No damage done.

I just think it's sad that this week thousands of conversations between parents and kids will inevitably start with, "Hey Dad, did you hear that Jamie Lynn got knocked up?"

I'm secretly hoping that Emma Roberts (niece of Julie) and Myle Cyrus (daughter of Billy Ray) both get knocked up soon so their shows get cancelled too.  With my daughter's three favorite shows off the air, her weekly total TV habit will drop from 90 minutes to 0!  

Ask any 5th grader....  

Well, when a 5th grader starts posting in COJ I will. 

Statutory rape depends on the age of consent law in that particular state and the difference in age between the two participants.  In Missouri, if you are under 16 and the other is more than 4 yrs older, it's statutory.  If they happen to have oral sex it's considered third degree sodomy.  My nephew was jailed recently for this very thing.  Girl received no punishment though both stated that it was consentual.  If convicted on all charges, he's 17, he would have to file as a sex offender and would have faced up to 20 years in jail.  Looks like he will do probation for 5 years with no sex offender filing necessary.

This situation with the Spears girl will begin a conversation for parents with their young daughters that many were probably not ready for and the media attention just makes the discussions harder. 

Oh, that explains why I did the things I did when I was an adolescent!

My daughter is 6 and we didn't let her watch that show.  But we are prepared for the questions to come our way as we know some of her school friends watched it and will surely be talking about it.