one born every minute

(started 2/15. edited/posted 3/12)

i feel obligated to watch the show, but really wish they would omit the teenage element; MTV has cornered that market, and i just doesn't have the patience for "kids these days" having babies when the most important thing to them is constant texting while the frigging doctor is talking to her about what's going on in her vagina. barf. she's barely 17 yrs old, same with the father. they were dating 4 months before she got knocked up. reckless. simply reckless.
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okay, now i feel like the cynical bitch that i am because, well, the 17 year old girl's story ended up being really nice. i'm glad they showed her story (foot in mouth) because she has a very supportive and realistic family around her. the teen's mom said "just because you're not 18 doesn't mean you can't be a great mom." and that's very true--IF and IF you have the support of your immediate family, which she did. to a degree i've never heard of. i mean, not creepy, like the kid is being raised as the mom's sister.

ew! i JUST remembered. there were absolutely no to-term pregnancies at my high school. i'm sure there were lots of pregnancies no one heard of (or some of us did), but nothing to term during the four years before me when my brothers were there or during the four years i was there. until....until i was a senior. then there were TWO pregnancies! one of a freshman girl, one of a junior. FRESHMAN! and her family decided she'd have the baby and that the grandmother (the teen's mom) would raise the baby as her own kid, and maybe they'll the kid the truth later. wow. that sounds healthy... and also like a plan that wouldn't work so well since even i knew about it, and i hardly knew the chick. there were 2,000 kids in my high school. rumors linger... it's been 20+ years now...wonder how they're doing?

anyway, back to this show...when i have more energy to keep talking.