I consider myself pretty liberal, but this is too much.

I’m perusing the web, checking out People.com and the like, and stop dead in my tracks – Jamie Lynn Spears is allegedly engaged to the child that impregnated her. But the shocking part is how people (including celebs) are celebrating her choices. I’ve seen countless sites that praise her for “taking responsibility” for her actions. WTF?!?!?! Strapping on a condom or popping a birth control pill would have been taking responsibility. Or how about not having sex at 16?

It is my understanding that her hit Nickolodeon show, Zoey 101 (which is a show for CHILDREN), is coming back on the air for another season. AND Spears is appearing in an episode of Miss Guided – which airs at 8pm.

Again, WTF! Are you kidding me? This is insane – she is 16 years old. If I had gotten knocked-up at 16 my mother would have beat me, not phoned OK Magazine for an exclusive interview. And I highly doubt anyone would be applauding my choice for “taking responsibility.”

It has become too easy for babies to have babies – young people who put themselves in these situations are offered free or drastically reduced college education, food stamps, welfare, daycare assistance, cheap health insurance and housing assistance (at least in NY state). Where are my freebies? I didn’t get pregnant as a teen – and now I’m saddled with more than $40k in school loans, a mortgage payment, insane grocery bills, and costly health care coverage. My older sister, who is expecting her first child this summer, will have to pay out the nose for daycare while she is teaching second graders. Where did we go wrong?

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