This week I think we need to discuss the show teen mom! This show has become an epidemic! Ok to let you know what it is here is how Wikipedia describes it: Teen Mom is an American reality television series that premiered on MTV on December 8, 2009. The series is a spin-off of 16 and Pregnant, and chronicles the lives of four of the original teenagers from that series as they navigate their first year of motherhood. In addition to teenage motherhood, the series focuses on themes of changing relationships, specifically, those of the family, friends, couples and school. It shows the struggles teenagers have to go through to raise their children.
My thoughts when I watched the first thing was thank God those are not my children. This season was even crazier. The whole point of this show is to show the struggles teens have to go through so that other teens don’t get pregnant. However, I am confused why the state never files any charges on these girls and if you went on the show for the right reason you would point out that you loved your child but, look how hard it is. If this was my show I would focus on all the struggles that you really go through. For an example getting up nonstop through the night making bottles and changing diapers, waking up tired and sleeping when the baby is napping! Also, teething! That is a nightmare itself. Instead they show moments of them being happy go lucky.
If you want to make a point do what MSNBC news did and post an article on the bad. Here’s what MSNBC had to report: What will it take before MTV fires 'Teen Mom' Evans? Network likely won't cut her loose since show is about bad decisions, pop culture expert says. First, let's review Evans' ever-growing rap sheet.
Before yesterday's arrest in Oak Island, N.C., for that highly publicized brawl, the 19-year-old reality star and her slacker boyfriend, Kieffer Delp, were busted last October after allegedly breaking into an Oak Island house and getting caught with marijuana.
Consequently, she'll be in court April 26 for a hearing on misdemeanor drug charges and breaking and entering stemming from that case. Then on April 29, she'll have to answer to even more counts of breaking and entering, injury to real property, trespassing and making harassing phone calls in a separate case.
With all that alleged law-breaking under her belt, one wonders when execs at MTV might deem her too radioactive to justify her firing.
Don't hold your breath, according to one pop-culture watcher.
According to Robert Thompson, director of the Bieier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, there doesn't seem to be much outrage targeting the show—mainly because "Teen Mom" explores the idea of bad role models. And there are so many bigger celeb meltdowns these days grabbing the spotlight (see Sheen, Charlie; Lohan, Lindsay).
"Charlie Sheen was on the network of Edward R. Murrow, CBS, and he got a pretty long leash before they finally took him to the pound," Thompson tells E! News. "And here were talking MTV. Not only is MTV a totally different brand than something like CBS, but secondly we're talking about a show about people who've made bad decisions so it's not surprising."
Thompson says that given the content of the current crop of reality shows, viewers would be more surprised if participants didn't have some sort of shady past. What matters more, however, is the kind of uproar generated by interest groups, such as the Parents Television Council for instance, who track and condemn their bad behavior. The PTC has issued several "action alerts" targeting "Teen Mom," but nothing has stuck.
Then they are starting to become TV stars like Macey off the first season. Here’s part of an article from TV blurred talking about her joining Jersey Shores. When the Jersey Shore cast heads to Italy for their third season in a few weeks, they’ll be joined by the cast of Teen Mom, including their babies. MTV said in a press release that “combining the casts of MTV’s most-popular series will give viewers even more of the drunken fights and drama they crave in their authentic entertainment.” The group will live together in a former convent that has been renovated to include baby changing tables attached to stripper poles.
All this makes me sick! I won’t even allow MTV to play at my house anymore. I don’t need my eight year old to think this is the way the world works!!!
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