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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
16 and Pregnant
Did anyone watch? This was probably the most painful episode for me to watch.
Re: 16 and Pregnant
My thoughts-
-I don't know why the Diocese of Covington was so POed, you could not see the school's name anywhere.
-I'm not sure how I feel about the adoption. Poor kid really didn't have a say in the matter. I saw my parents in her parents. As far as my dad is concerned, anyone unmarried person who gets pregnant should choose adoption. I would not have had any other choice if I had been in the same situation. Her parents did seem way better than some of the other parents on both episodes of the show. I made the mistake of reading the comments on MTV's site though. The commenters are blasting her mom (although they all sound like teens who think texting slang is real life English).
-Was Lori learning (even developmentally) disabled? She & her mom both made a few comments (she would not succeed at school w/o her mom's help, she was unable to care for a baby, she used the R word to describe herself) that made me think so. We've dealt with LD issues in our family so maybe I'm just hypersensitive or reading too much into the things they said.
-Lastly, what is with all these girls dating older guys?? Some of them seem to be over 21 (did I see a beer on his countertop?). There seems to be a big age gap in a few of these relationships. A few years is one thing but a few of them seemed to have a 4 or 5 year gap. There's no reason for a 15, 16, or even 17 y/o to be with a 21 year old. My dad would have called the police if I dated a way older guy when I was under 18.
I talked to my sister about the age thing too and we believe she was 18 because she was a senior in high school. I think the age difference was a little much, imo.
What I thought was interesting is that she was adopted. You would think that if it was a good experience for her she would want that for her child.
As for the mom, I didn't think she was bad at all. Her opinion came from the fact that she had an adopted daughter that she loved. Also, she knew that her daughter was not ready. Babies are expensive, take a lot of time and need constant care. Who would be the person to do that?
Now, the boyfriend annoyed the crap out of me. He seemed so useless. It appeared that his family was never around but he said they were so disappointed in him. Why didn't they stand up and take responsibility?
The mom was definitely pushy, but I couldn't bring myself to blame her. I can barely handle the children I already have, and I would not want the responsibility of helping to raise my grandchildren, too.
I would have told the girl and her ex boyfriend that they had two choices: Either get jobs, support yourselves, move out of my home, provide for daycare and raise the baby without my help, or consider adoption/abortion.
The ex boyfriend, although clearly immature ("They're waiting for me at the bar!") seemed like a peach compared to the baby-daddy from the previous show who sent a nasty text message calling his daughter "that mistake."
This exact thing. Oh so painful..