Everytime I see a commercial for this abc FAMILY show I'm sadden to tears. (literally, but I think it's due to the new motherhood role I've taken on) How can they have a FAMILY TV show about a teenager getting pregnant??? Now, I haven't seen it... and don't plan on ever watching it... but from what I can tell it seems that they are making it look like pregnancy for a teenager is an accepted thing. (After the initial shock I'm sure) How can a FAMILY oriented channel support this? Is this REALLY what the life of a teenager is now days? I saw in the news a week or two back where these 15 teenagers made a pack to get pregnant... are they crazy??? I didn't see the movie Juno either (obviously because my feelings toward this issue are what they are) but I have to wonder if all this positive attention that has been given recently has affected the teenagers and children of this generation. How can we be okay with children having children??? These poor babies being born.. I can only wonder how our Heavenly Father feels about sending them to these circumstances. I worry for my sweet innocent little Gavin and what the world will be like when he is a teenager!
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ABC is run by a bunch of liberal, kool aid drinkers, bent on destroying the family.
I thought I was the only Jacob Black fan, but finally I see that someone else has some decency as well!
Dev! Hey I'm so glad I came across your blog. You and your beautiful have the CUTEST little boy ever. He is so smiley! Looks like you guys are doing great.
Funny that you would mention this show. I saw Molly Ringwald being interviewed about this show. I lost all and total interest when she explained that her daughter in the show was pregnant and 15!!! What, are you kidding me. 15 years old is barely old enough to go to High School and real with life. We all remember what that was like could you even imagine going thru that again and being pregnant? I say we band together and start our own T.V. station that shows the real life of a teenager that actually doesn't have sex, drink, smoke, steal, do drugs, or run away. I know there are teenagers that live their lives without all of the stuff I just mentioned. I know this because I have one of those and he is currently serving a mission in Texas.......:) Can you tell I have some passion behind this subject?? Sorry I am off of my soapbox now. XXX OOO
It's sad. People stopped believing that it's possible for teenagers to have self-control and just go along with it now. And it seems they live up to people's expectations which are set pretty low.
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April my love! I am so thrilled that you are doing a blog and that I can do some stalking now and then! I was so excited to see pictures of DARLING little Gavin - last I heard you were expecting, and now here he is, such a little man already! About this post - DITTO!!! I saw the same commercial as you a few weeks ago and had just the same reaction - it's so sad and awful and ridiculous! I was sure I wasn't the only one that felt that way, but it's good to hear someone else express the same concerns!
I have to say that I DID see the first episode under the impression that it was going to be like the early "Seventh Heaven" episodes and was curious. Anyway, I was shocked and embarrassed at how many times they said the word sex in the first few minutes of the show! Every conversation between any of the kids at the school was about sex. Either how they'd had it, wanted to have it, were trying to convince their girlfriends to have it, one girl was trying to seduce every guy that walked by and there was ONE girl that was talking about how important it was to WAIT to have it, but everything else so far overshadowed her remarks that it didn't even matter. There was a guidance councilor that handed out condoms and free sex advice and even talked to some boy who had decided he was ready to have it and told him to join band class to impress the girl he had chosen to be his first (he'd never spoken to her or even met her before). It was extremely disappointing and disgusting. I didn't watch the whole thing as I was worried that my kids would come in and overhear the conversations and think it okay to discuss such sacred things so freely and nonchalantly. And THEN there is the whole topic of the girl being pregnant at 15 and she's considered the "good girl" or the "band geek" on the show. Yes it is every bit as terrible as you'd all expect it to be. I heard about that pact between the friends to all get pregnant after watching Juno. I guess they were just sleeping with random people trying to get pregnant and would go in flocks to the school nurse for pregnancy tests and give high fives when their results were positive and start planning group baby showers. The ones who got negative pregnancy tests were obviously disappointed and left the nurse feeling frustrated. I guess one of the men who actually got one girl pregnant was a 38 year old homeless man! SO scary that we are raising kids in this crazy world. I'm so glad we have the gospel and the knowledge that we do. I only hope we can do a good enough job teaching our kids so that they will be strong and WANT to be the minority in almost every situation in their lives. Good luck to all of us!
hey wait! first commenter guy, i'm a liberal, and i have family values!
i agree with the post, i think too many shows depict promiscuity as "normal" and "ok," but it's a far bigger problem then supposed "liberal kool aid drinkers"
it's society as a whole.
good post, but just so you know, this liberal isn't out to destroy the family.....
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