Juno and other teen-preg movies

i saw juno i liked it a lot.. its a very good movie y i say this is the movie could have been made easily as a tear jerking technical movie..but the story is dealt with so much lightness that u laugh ur way till the end

I saw this movie. In parts I thought it was funny. my ten year old son and eight year old daughter wanted to watch this movie, and my husband and I refused to let them because of the message we thought it was sending out about teen pregnancies. At the end she gives the baby up for adoption. I really have mixed feelings about his movie. but overall its not a movie i'm going to let my kids watch .

I hadn't heard anything about this until now. I did hear on the news this week that 17 teens were pregnant at one school. they made a pact together to get pregnant at the same time in the same year. They slept with men older than they were just to get pregnant. They may be looking into statutory rape on these men also. I don't encourage teen pregnancy at all. They are not able to get jobs and take care of themsleves, let alone a baby.

I don't really think the movie Juno encourages teen pregnancy but I do think it showed this issue in a very sensitive manner. I do think perhaps seeing the news about Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy and the recent birth of her baby may make other young girls unrealistically think that if she can do it so can they. The truth is, she shouldn't have had a baby either at her age but she certainly has the means to take care of it that most girls her age do not. The story of the 17 girls from one high school who all made a "pregnancy pact" is very disturbing to me, though, and I really have no idea what would have caused them to even consider doing this! Annie

This is really a weird thing since girls back then were married at 12 and 13 and had babies young and isn't really a new thing..but because of the womens Lib and women waiting to have babies later in life, it sounds like we are encouraging it now..in movies and online with stars..we didn't have ways of stopping pregnancies except in back alleys and i lost alot of friends this way..so now with pills and uterine devices it stopped alot of deaths and now we have choices to make..but if anyone says 15 and 16 is young then they should go look up in their history books and find out the truth!

I don't think that we are neccesarily encouraging teen pregnancy by showing it on the big screen. I strongly believe that people will make their own decisions regardless of what they see in the media. This like any moral dillema has much more to do with the social structure the children are around more so than what they view in films or telivision. I have not seen the film but I've heard a lot about it and have read some reviews.

oh it is a big factor, movies stars are role models for young and impressionable teens, they also make having babies look oh so glamorous, so they kids feel if they movies stars can do it, so can they. sorry I am not around much, I am doing my writing assignments again.

I have seen this movie and I do not think it encourages teen pregnancy. It showed how her discussion affected her. How others shunned her and talked bad about her. It was hard for her to have decided to have the baby and put it up for adoption. The movie was mostly light hearted but had some really sad parts in it to. If anything it told our three teenage daughters that this was not something they wanted in their lives.I just asked my 15 year old daughter what she thought the movie taught and she said that it was "that no matter how much you screw up you family will still be there for you." And that it did not teach that it was all right to be pregnant.

Well, I would say that such movies are certainly not discouraging the pregnancies. I found when I was counseling unwed and teen mothers that the main reason for the pregnancies was the desire for someone to love them unconditionally. Babies do that, of course, until they get to about two..... I think it says something very sad about our society when girls have to have babies to get the love they need.

Well I don't really think that these movies and stuff affect teen. I mean when I was around thirteen and graduating there were already girls that were pregnant. I'm 19 now and in high school there were a bunch of girls already pregnant. Teen pregnancy occurs all the time and none of that has to do with movies and stuff. But that's just my opinion. I've seen movies like that all the time and they have not influenced me to go out and get pregnant. It depends on the person.

If anything, I thought that Juno would discourage teen pregnancy. Although the character handled the situation well, the movie in no way portrayed teen pregnancy as being easy, or something you should do. I also believe that the people around you, and the way you've been brought up are far more likely to influence your behaviour than a movie. And people will make decisions based on what's right for them at the time, or at least what they think is right. And this is highly unlikely to be based on movies, music or any other form of media.

I don't think Juno or other similar movies encourage teen pregnancy, but encourage putting up a child for adoption if a teen does get pregnant. I personally don't think that's a bad thing to put on the big screen. I would guess that the majority of pregnant teens would be better off giving their baby up for adoption, and their baby would definately live a better life. *Just my personal option.*

really.. up until about the 1960`s there abouts and the female bra burning hysteria.. "teens" being pregnant wasnt such a shocker taboo thing. people were married usually right out of high school.. and started families. long ago.. if you werent married by the time you were 17.. you were an "old maid" and became UNmarriable. i think with the times now, the way we treat our children is rather contradictory. by that i mean their education is fast tracked, (my 8 year old was learning multiplications in the 2nd grade!) but is expected to last until they are well into their twenties.. they are put into positions of responsibilities that are adult-like, and we expect they will still yet behave as though they were "children". by no means do i condone or encourage babies having babies.. but i think it really depends on the individual themselves. ive seen some 16 year olds be better more responsible parents to their children than some 40 year olds who put off having kids until theyve established their careers and bank accounts.

Alot of people say that music and movies do play a role on what many kids or teen will do .I always believed it all depends on the person and the state of mind they are in . I think Juno is too light hearted to take as a serious movie .It always points out that having a baby is not easy and you have a choice to make.It shows too how two teens are not ready to be parents.

i've watched juno and i really enjoyed the show. i won't say it encourages teen pregnancy as it delved into issues the teen will face. she didn't deliberately go out and get pregnant. it was an accident and everyone knows she won't be able to take care of the baby. juno knows that too and she went around looking for adopters for her baby. this is one good show that all teens thinking of getting pregnant should watch. hopefully they'd learn something from it. cheers :D

Teen pregnancy is nothing new. People used to be sent to visit "their great aunt" during the time of pregnancy and often the baby was given away and the whole thing hushed up. Now it is more out in the open, but the fact remains that it is there. It could be for a huge number of reasons. Families not really knowing each other, bad education, not enough communication, and so on. However, I don't think that either movies or celebrities are encouraging teen pregnancy. These are things that would happen with or without "Juno" and with or without celebrity pregnancy. It is sad, but true.

hi raydene no not really as most of the movie stars that I have seen that are pregnant are sure not teens. I think its more likely caused by home problems and poor parenting by parents and kids who want to grow up just too darned fast. I doubt that movies have all that much to do with these issues at all, more likely poor parenting.

Miss Jamie Lynn Spears exhibit a- shes a young s|ut. She encourages young fans of hers that girls her age are able to take care of a infant. Sure SHE has enough money to support one, but she sure doesn't have the strength or stability to have a great surrounding for her child. Stars like her sister and Nicole Richie show at least a better family image. They have or had family's with there child and were a bit older. The brangalina bunch is just chaotic. They have a few to many kids when they are parents that travel. I don't think everything in the news articles are true, but you can tell my the kids face's they are not happy. Even if they are the pictures that the photography took only while the children were unhappy during his time near them. Celebes's who adopt, thumbs up to you for showing people how others have to live their lives in different countries. But really do you need to be so public about all of it and the troubles to come with? I don't believe everything I read as I do purchase Life and Style and In touch weekly. But they are interesting to see how others are just put right out there with such deep down personal info real or not. It is just nuts the articles that you find in these magazines. Where do they come up with this stuff. Sure I would love to be a paparazzi but I wouldn't want to have to write lies about people or stories that would hurt others. Like all these pregnancy stories and Family portraits with there new family's so that there ex Hollywood Celebes's partners have to see that and hear about that kind of thing. I could go on for hours about these magazines. I do love them tho I'm not going to lie. I haven't watched to many movies about teens with babies. I have not seen juno yet. lol But yes I do believe Anyone famous be it young or old is putting pressure on young kids to have babies and even older people to adopt.