Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant

[James]

Originally Posted by Stormtracker TF

Now now, Karen...When Jackie got knocked up at 16 we ALL had our fair share of "trash" and "slut" jabs.

Stormtracker TF, who's Jackie?

[LuLu Rogers]

I think it's sad that she's pregnant, but not because of who she is. I think these teen mothers are too young to understand the responcibility envolved in raising a child. I see it every day at Walmart when I'm working. Young mothers come through and they can barely afford to feed their babies, it's really sad. We need to be teaching kids about safe sex, it won't prevent all pregnancies, but it will help.

[junecleaver]

Originally Posted by Janice

Britney and K-Fed were doomed from the start. When your boyfriend's "ex" is pregnant with their second child, that's usually a bad sign, lol. I also don't think that Jamie's Mom is praising this. She loves her daughter, and she's making the best of an unexpected and unfortunate situation. My sister got pregnant at 16, and had her son right after her 17th birthday. That was in 1972. Today, that "mistake" has two of the most adorable kids imaginable, a 10-year old blonde haired, blue-eyed girl, a living doll, and a 7-year old son, who is such a little character.

I mentioned earlier that my mother was pregnant at 17, and my parents were married for 50 years. My husband's parents, same thing, had a couple of kids before they were 20, then three more, and were married for 58 years.

So yes, I agree. Lynne Spears is dealing with this, as best she can. She seems like a nice woman to me, a former grade-school teacher. I don't think she deserves all this trashing. Britney's downfall started after she was married anyway, and if your 16-year old gets pregnant, it doesn't make a person a terrible parent. My mother was June Cleaver's clone. My parents were perfect, yet two of their four children got into trouble, to the point that they died.

I guess the point I'm making (not to you because I can see that you're rational and get it), the point is that great parents sometimes have troubled kids. And lousy parents often turn out great kids. My Mom's mother was a drunk, and my mother was an extra great mother because of that. Good parenting is very important, of course; but sometimes, with some kids, even that's not enough.

I guess the story isn't juicy enough, as is. Gotta turn Jamie into a stupid slut, her boyfriend a rapist, and the mother a lousy parent, lol. I'm still holding out hope that Britney turns her life around. I never take pleasure in someone else's pain.

i totally agree. The media always has to turn things into something worse, its because society in general takes pleasure in other's pain. I never met a teenage mom who regretted having their child, and if anything it has made them a better person.

[Sara Micelli]

Why is everyone so sure that Jamie Lynn had unprotected sex? Accidents happen.

[LuLu Rogers]

Originally Posted by Sara Micelli

Why is everyone so sure that Jamie Lynn had unprotected sex? Accidents happen.

Definately, I'm not saying that she did, but a lot of teens do.

[TJL]

It's Ethics 101: Nickelodeon needs to nix Jamie Lynn Spears
Thursday, December 20th 2007, 4:00 AM


If Nickelodeon wants to be the safe haven it has always promised America's parents, it will cut its ties with Jamie Lynn Spears.

It cannot have as one of its most prominent faces an unmarried 16-year-old who announces her pregnancy on the cover of a magazine with a figurative shrug of "Oh well, whatever" - because cashing in on the star of "Zoey 101" at this point means changing the network's own message.

No, this wouldn't be an easy call for Nickelodeon, which is the classic innocent victim here. The network has paid for another dozen episodes of "Zoey" and swallowing them, even just for a while, would be expensive and controversial. It would also annoy countless fans of the show.

Trouble is, these are largely uncharted waters for a network that targets kids. The closest thing, perhaps, was the nude Internet photos of squeaky-clean Vanessa Hudgens from "High School Musical." But that story wasn't going to last nine months, and Hudgens isn't a Spears.

So Nickelodeon could say she made a mistake and move forward, and that wouldn't be an evil course. But if we want this sordid moment to end with a real lesson, Nick should pull the plug.

It can do this without thundering judgmental fury or self-righteous condemnation. It can maintain the appropriate compassion of its initial response, that her well-being is foremost.

But at some point, if Nickelodeon keeps Spears on its airwaves, the network will seem to be saying that unmarried teen pregnancy, a major American problem, is negotiable if the unmarried teen is a good earner.

She already is that, and it's a sure bet the new episodes will be hotter, which is why Nick can make a strong point by shelving them.

It's not that Nickelodeon has ever lived in some '50s sitcom world where kids never face tough issues like sex. Spears' character in "Zoey" has faced them herself.

But Nick, unlike many other media, doesn't wink at ill-advised behavior or ignore its potential consequences, and that's what the current Spears flurry is really about: consequences.

All 16-year-olds make mistakes. They all need forgiveness, from others and themselves. But forgiveness does not erase consequences, and Jamie Lynn doesn't get a pass because she was unbelievably stupid, even allowing for the fact brains don't run in her family.

It also doesn't excuse her that she has little experience with consequences, though it's true. First, there's her sister. Second, there's her mother, who got a contract from a Christian publishing house for a book on parenting while her older daughter was turning into an international poster girl for lunatic hedonism.

That book was put on hold yesterday, but the fact she got the deal in the first place tells the truth - that her name would sell, not that she had anything to say.

If Nickelodeon keeps Jamie Lynn Spears because her product sells, it runs the risk that a valuable message it has spent years crafting could shift from "trust us" to "whatever."

[Hollow]

Originally Posted by Sara Micelli

Why is everyone so sure that Jamie Lynn had unprotected sex? Accidents happen.

i thought about that too. any type of birth control, even if used properly, can fail.

[TJL]

There are other people out there affected by Jamie Lynn's predicament.

From MSNBC:


updated 10:37 p.m. ET, Wed., Dec. 19, 2007


Courtney Hazlett
The Scoop


Wednesday, Dec. 19 was supposed to be a big day for Ashlee Simpson. After spending the last year working on a new album, “Outta My Head,” Ashlee’s debut video was set to release to big fanfare.

Unfortunately, the spotlight just wasn’t meant to be for Simpson, thanks to the news that Jamie Lynn Spears is with child.

“Ashlee can’t believe this happened. She’s so disappointed,” said a source.

It's not all about you Jamie!

[Janice]

Originally Posted by TJL

There are other people out there affected by Jamie Lynn's predicament.

From MSNBC:


updated 10:37 p.m. ET, Wed., Dec. 19, 2007


Courtney Hazlett
The Scoop


Wednesday, Dec. 19 was supposed to be a big day for Ashlee Simpson. After spending the last year working on a new album, “Outta My Head,” Ashlee’s debut video was set to release to big fanfare.

Unfortunately, the spotlight just wasn’t meant to be for Simpson, thanks to the news that Jamie Lynn Spears is with child.

“Ashlee can’t believe this happened. She’s so disappointed,” said a source.

It's not all about you Jamie!

Ms. Simpson, people get pregnant. If that steals your thunder, it couldn't have been that big of a deal in the first place. I guess these people should start coordinating their pregnancies and album release dates, lol.

[Janice]

Originally Posted by junecleaver

i totally agree. The media always has to turn things into something worse, its because society in general takes pleasure in other's pain. I never met a teenage mom who regretted having their child, and if anything it has made them a better person.

I think Jamie is too young, but since she is pregnant, I guess it's best to look at the positives. She'll be a nice young mother. I loved having a young mother. In 20 years, Jamie will be 36, and she'll have an adult daughter. One of my friends got pregnant shortly after high school. She thought, we all thought it was the end of the world. She and her boyfriend made it to the abortion clinic, and she ran out, crying. Today, my friend's son is 30, while she's 48. She had only miscarriages after that, so he was a blessing.

My husband's niece was 17, same thing -- went to the abortion clinic, but couldn't do it. That was over 20 years ago. That 'mistake' is a budding fashion designer, living in New York, and has brought only joy to the family. I know so many of these stories.

[catlover79]

Originally Posted by Janice

Ms. Simpson, people get pregnant. If that steals your thunder, it couldn't have been that big of a deal in the first place. I guess these people should start coordinating their pregnancies and album release dates, lol.

Ashlee, I think your 15 minutes passed you by several years ago.

[Janice]

Teen Spears' Baby Daddy Eludes Media

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - He's a 19-year-old pipe layer; a deer-hunting, dirt-bike-riding former high school class president who still lives in his tiny Mississippi hometown. So why are the paparazzi hot on his trail?

Because Casey Aldridge is an expectant father - and the mother is 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears.

And to hear Aldridge's uncle tell it, the daddy-to-be isn't quite ready to join Spears - the star of "Zoey 101" and the sister of pop starBritney Spears - in the spotlight.

"I don't think they are ready yet to sit down and talk to the media," Odus Jackson, a pastor in Gloster, Miss., told The Associated Press by telephone Thursday. "They haven't gotten their heads together yet."

Jackson said media were already swarming the southern Mississippi town - with a population of 1,073 at last census count - in search of Aldridge, not even 48 hours after the news came that Spears told OK! celebrity magazine about the pregnancy. She said she plans to raise the baby in her home state of Louisiana.

Jackson, 71, said Aldridge left before camera crews ascended Wednesday and was going into hiding. Jackson said he spoke briefly with his nephew, who also lives in Gloster but was often out of town for work.

"He doesn't want to say the wrong thing to the media," Jackson said. "At the right time he will speak."

It's unclear how Aldridge and the younger Spears met or where they spent time together.

Jackson said his nephew briefly attended a junior college in Mississippi but now works for a pipe-laying company in Baton Rouge, La. He attended school at Amite School Center in nearby Liberty, Miss., where he played football and baseball, principal Dan Brewer said.

Brewer, who was not principal when Aldridge graduated last year, said the teen went to school with his daughter and has visited his home. Aldridge was class president, and was honored by his senior classmates as "campus favorite" and "most versatile."

"He was just a super dude," Brewer said.

Jackson said Aldridge enjoys deer hunting and rode dirt bikes. His parents, Joyce and Mark, currently live in Tennessee.

"He is a quiet guy," Jackson said. "That is why it is going to be very difficult to corner him until everybody is ready to talk together on the same page. He doesn't like the limelight. He is going to hide as much as he can."

Jackson denied reports that his nephew and Spears, who was a guest at Jackson's home this past Thanksgiving, were no longer together.

"I think they are going to try to stay together," he said. "They certainly don't want to part."

Jackson said Aldridge has told family members that "he wants to go ahead and get married as soon as possible." Jackson added that the two do not want to "rush into it."
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Okay, who makes the first pipe laying joke.

[Ireneparalegal]

Where is Jamie Lynn's father? Does the man exist? I keep hearing abt the mother but what abt the father?

[catlover79]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

Where is Jamie Lynn's father? Does the man exist? I keep hearing abt the mother but what abt the father?

I read this on imdb...not sure about accuracy, but it's something:

Spears' Dad Angry at Jamie-Lynn's Interview

Jamie-Lynn Spears' father is reportedly "furious" at the TV star, because he didn't want his daughter to lower herself by selling the news of her pregnancy to the press. The 16-year-old confirmed she is 12-weeks pregnant with student Casey Aldridge's baby during an interview with OK! magazine, which hit American news stands on Tuesday. But dad Jamie - who split from wife Lynne in 2002 - is reportedly "depressed" and "devastated" by her tell-all interview, according to USmagazine.com. A source adds, "He put his foot down and refused to take any money and 'profit off of his children'. Lynne didn't care. (He) feels Jamie-Lynn ruined her life." However, the Zoey 101 actress and her mom Lynne are alleged to have initially turned down the offer of cash for the revealing interview, agreeing instead to a $1 million fee for the baby's first photo shoot when Jamie-Lynn gives birth next year. And website Tmz.com claims the teen could be further along in her pregnancy than everyone has been led to believe - suggesting a July report in American tabloid the National Enquirer was more accurate in putting her due date in the spring, instead of the widely-reported June.

[TJL]

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Welcome to the circus Casey!