Insight: What We Watch

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There's not much to say on the subject of teen pregnancy today. Perhaps <a title="Teen pregnancy" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSN0941915920080710" target="_blank">Jamie Lynn Spears</a> says it best.  (Thanks goes to my 15-year-old daughter for bringing this article to my attention).Of course, it's impossible not to feel compassion for the many less fortunate girls for whom such a mistake means a life very different from the one Jamie Lynn's daughter is likely to have. And it's just as difficult to pin down why young girls might romanticize motherhood as it is to pin down why young boys (or girls) might romanticize violence. But these are topics worthy of at least some thought. In the spirit of Jack Johnson, no blame is implied. 9 application/xml false parenting teen pregnancy teen violence Insight: What We Watch Many people believe that we can watch anything and everything to no ill effect. But studies show that some correlation between viewed aggression and subsequent behavior can be made. http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=5808 The Baby Borrowers fights teen pregnancy "The Baby Borrowers" gives five couples ages 18 to 20 the opportunity to find out what it is really like to be responsible for the life of another person. The couples will live together and begin the journey with a simulated pregnancy. http://www.parentdish.com/2008/06/19/the-baby-borrowers-fights-teen-pregnancy/ Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Avant Browser; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 gstepp 216.175.109.104 false true false false true 191587 false false true false false false true 190283 blog blogsite/FamilyMatters/web