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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I have to admit, I was shocked when I read about a mother who allowed her 13 year old daughter to go on the pill:

When Tracey Baverstock realised her 13-year-old daughter Connie was having sex, she didn’t shout or scream. She took her straight to the doctor to put her on the Pill.

Having already seen two of her daughters become teenage mums, Tracey, 39, from Portsmouth, was determined it wasn’t going to happen again.

Granted, a new study was just released that supports a decrease in cancer rates in women who were on the pill. The rub? The advantage only lasted for 8 years, after that, cancer risk increased exponentially.

So what in the world is this mother thinking?

I’ve never once regretted putting Connie on the Pill. I didn’t condone the fact that she was having sex - far from it. Of course I was upset. I was shocked - my little girl was only 13.

But having me rant and rave at Connie not to have sex wasn’t going to stop her, she’s a headstrong teenager. I was also aware of her getting very jealous of the attention given to my other daughters Sheri and Joleen when they were pregnant.

Is she serious? Her 13 year old was headstrong and going to have sex anyway? Isn’t that when that crazy little thing called parenting is supposed to kick in? I mean really, can you think of a better time to utilize parenting skills than this? If your 13 year old wants to have sex and your answer is, “Ah, well. What am I going to do about it,” you may want to re-evaluate when you went wrong.

Here’s a crazy suggestion…keep her home! At 13, you should be able to have some control over your kid. Whose parenting who here???

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