Okay, I don't really know who Britney Spears is. I know she's a singer who apparently does drugs and doesnt know how to care for her own children. (And I believe she's the one whom everyone castigated as being fat on a recent come-back performance in which she wore a halter top, to reveal a fine tummy beneath, just not "ripped" as if she'd been lifting weights. (Yes, I did see a photo of that and could only shake my head. Not that her performance was apparently so bad, but because people were calling this woman - who was not fat, fat.) She wasn't "toned," but she certainly was not fat!
But I suppose if you choose to wear a suggestively sexy outfit, and perform sexily suggestive moves on stage in front of thousands of drooling males, you have to expect being called fat if you don't look anorexic.
Anyway, the sister is 16. Apparently she is an actress, in some show called Zoey, and has been living alone, with her boyfriend, who is all of 19 (this with the blessings of her parents). I wonder what he does for a living? Hopefully he's an actor to and not just some pretty boy she picked up off a street corner.
On one hand, this is not necessarily a bad thing. As the star in a TV series, she makes a lot of money, and so giving birth to a child when she is a child herself, not to mention unwed, will not put her on the welfare rolls, as it does with the vast majority of girls who make this mistake. (Unless she exhibits the same amount of intelligence that she has up to this point, loses all her money in some stupid deals, is abandoned by her fans, and then has to go on welfare because she has no education and no smarts to do anything else.) Perhaps she will be smarter than her sister, and employ some full-time nannies who know something about raising children.
There's an article at yahoo.news in which people are sounding off about what parents will tell their own children about this news. Invariably, they all say that they will teach their child not to have sex until they're married.
Now, this is a good plan...unless the child doesn't intend to get married. There's no reason for a woman who doesn't want to get married to deprive herself of sex. The thing is - she should wait until she is emotionally and more importantly financially ready to have sex and cope with any aftermath!
Women - even unmarried women - have a "right" to have a baby, in my opinion, only if that baby will not be a burden on society. If the mother can't afford to have it and will thus be on welfare for the rest of her life, she should not have that kid. And the baby, being brought up on welfare and thinking it the most natural thing in the world, will be on welfare for the rest of its life! Sure, there are exceptions - don't get me wrong. I know that many women, and men, fight their way out of the poverty trap. But statistics show that most, don't.
I'm always sent into emotions combined of despair and anger whenever I read statistics about teenage pregnancy. Don't these girls have any ambition, any plans for the future? Unfortunately, the media has inculcated them since the day they were born that they are nothing if they are not attractive enough to get a man, and if they can't get a husband, well, at least they can get a baby to prove that some boy has thought them attractive enough to have sex with (never realizing that the boys aren't concerned with attractiveness, they're concerned with availability. As witness, the fact that the boy doesn't marry the girl once he's gotten her pregnant.)
Well...this is a bit of a rant. But on so many levels - from the status of women to the status of my tax dollars - I find the news about unwed mothers very sad and disturbing.
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