Media and Teen Pregnancy

In some ways, the media does a very good job of showing the affects of teen pregnancy and in other ways, not so much. In the show, "The Secret Life of the Aamerican teenager" in some episodes they show the real side of it better than others. In the show, Amy gaver birth to John with Ricky who is the "bad boy" in school. They show how Amy can't go out anymore and she always needs to find a babysitter, and that really starts to frustrate her. In other episodes though, they just foget about the baby and he is not even in that episode. That is when it starts to get fake. Everyday the parent must be with the baby and take care of them. You can't always have someone else do your work and watch your baby.

http://abcfamily.go.com/abcfamily/path/section_Shows+Secret-Life-Of-The-American-Teenager/page_Season-2-Episode-12


Another movie that show Teen Pregnancy is "Juno". This movie shows a different side to pregnancy then the usual movies or show. In "Juno" the mother and father decide to put the baby up for adoption which is one of the hardest decisions that parents have to make. The movie does a good job showing how sometimes the father might freak out and not really want anything to do with the baby at first but then they realize they need to be there for this baby and for the mother.

http://www.fandango.com/juno_110261/movieoverview


In an article that I read, people are concerned that the media is promoting teen pregnancy by making all of theses shows and movies about it. Some people may look at it that way, but other will look at it as the medias way of just showing the real affcts of it. Neither way is correct it is everyone's personal opionion. The article also says that the media just shows the prenancy and not what happens before or after. In some ways I think this is true but in other ways I think it is not. For example in some shows and movies they show what happens after and how the people's whole entire life is changed forever.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/148437