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from the associated press:

Spears is 12 weeks along and initially kept the news to herself when she learned of the pregnancy from an at-home test and subsequent doctor visit, she told the celebrity magazine, which hits stands in New York on Wednesday and the rest of the country by Friday.

she missed her period three times?

her MOTHER has even said publicly that she's preggers and nick has released a statement saying they support her.

and her sister didn't find out until it was IN THE NEWS.

try to keep up! stare

also! i'd like to say that kiddos in my generation were having sex like bunnies. in fact, i was the ONLY virgin i knew. sweatdrop HOWEVER, we were smart enough to use condoms and bc. my issue with kids today is that they seem incapable of being EVEN A LITTLE responsible.

crying bad parenting imho.

Yep, and it's not just the stars either...it's our every day 16 and younger girls too. I'd disown my daughter if she turned out like that, cus it definitely wouldn't be my fault.

Also...that trailer thing put bad images in my head...maybe you should have said trailer park instead...a trailer is too long and hard...eh heh...if you catch my meaning. ^^; Excuse me, I have to scrub teh nasties from my brain...

I'm a virgin and I'm 15 but I STILL wouldn't have sex at all because i'm too aware of how badly it would affect my life if i got some girl pregnant, not to mention how the child would grow up.
Most males my age and older feel as though they have to prove themselves by losing their virginity. I can't say about you girls, but
I guess that all i can say is that testosterone is a powerful thing.

Seriously people.. Nothing has changed.

Thousands of teenagers have been having sex and getting pregnant since WAYYY before any of you were being born. Nude pics have been flying around since before the internet was even thought of. And mass murders.. ok well maybe that's just a fairly new fad... but it's been happening for a long time too. It's not the generation that's ******** up. It's the media that relishes in the despair of society...

domokun i must agree with this, teen pregnancy, pornography, open sexual activities and such has been around since before the times of Jesus domokun Sodom and Gomorrah is a very good reference for these type of things domokun

I'm not sure if the world participating in more "liberal sexual acts" is to blame here...actually, I think it's sort of the opposite. America is on of the only developed nations that is so hypocritical about sexuality (and a million other things besides, but that's not for here...). Other areas of the world, such as Italy and France, are very relaxed about sex. What I mean by that, is that it's not something they try to shelter their children from knowing about or seeing. So what if a kid sees naked people on TV? Big deal, it's the human body and it's entirely natural. Even sex is, I mean, I think it's funny how we condone violence (destructive against humanity) more readily than we condone sex (vital for humanity) in the media and where ever else. <--at least this is true for the states.

I think we actually need to be more "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" about sex, honestly. If we didn't glorify it and make it a taboo at the same time, kids wouldn't sneak around and feel like they had to have it, have to prove themselves, need it to feel attractive and desirable, etc. Also, if it were out in the open, people would have more access to birth control. Which would help prevent those teenage pregnancies, durr.

If sex weren't a focal point of our cultures as much as an accepted, plain ol' part of life, and not this big taboo that is seen as *the* way you are going to ever be able to find a partner and therefore find happiness (by dressing/acting like a slut), then maybe little kids wouldn't try to step foot into it so quickly (and we could get rid of horrid toys like Bratz).

I'm 19, I'm not a virgin, but I have only had sex with one person, and that's the person I am still with today and have been for a while now, and I honestly had no desire to go out and be what is essentially a prostitute going up. I didn't have any urge to prove myself (and yes, girls are pressured that way as much as guys, just in different ways), or feel any need for male acceptance. But that may be because many of my friends growing up from a young age were male?

I guess it'll be all the more special for you then. =D

I don't see anything wrong with that, but I obviously am not against people who don't wait >_<() What does piss me off, are one night stands and people who just...well take my friend for example, she had sex after 2 or 3 months of dating this boy...who was a freshman in high school at the time! And she was a senior. She's three years older than him. Ick, I can't even imagine... gonk never mind, I'm just going to leave that one there. The point is that's like, statutory rape, she was 18 and he was 15. Even if it was consensual (and I know it was!) he was (and still is) underage. She uses birth control, so at least she's not completely irresponsible, and they have been going out for a little over a year now, and are still together, but still.