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A post from Double X writer Meredith Simons:
Torie, you wondered whether MTV's show 16 and Pregnant
will encourage teenage moms-to-be to consider adoption. At least one
pro-life group hopes so: Lifeline Adoption oversees several
pro-adoption websites, including the fortuitously-named 16andpregnant.com.
Fans of the show who type in that URL won't get a site about the show.
They'll get one aimed at girls who are precisely that: 16 and pregnant.
At first glance it's a relatively generic, "We know you're scared, here
are your options," sort of site, but it quickly becomes it clear that
the site designers really only have one option in mind ... (Read the rest of this post, or the whole conversation, in Double X.)
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I've aged out of almost all of MTV's programming—watching barely legal
20-somethings binge drink grain alcohol on various incarnations of the Real World is no longer my idea of entertainment. But I've caught a few episodes of the MTV series 16 and Pregnant, and althought I'm not the target audience, I have found the show to be pretty riveting stuff ... (Read the rest of this post, or the whole conversation, in Double X.)
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