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| MTV Teen Mom logo, courtesy of Flow TV |
Teen Mom is a spin off of the ground breaking series 16 and Pregnant which follows high school girls who have recently found out they were pregnant all the way through delivery and the baby's first few months. The show's themes were supposed to be more of these teen's learning that teen pregnancy is not easy, rather than glamorizing it.
Teen Mom spun off in December of 2009, following four of the 16 and Pregnant season "favorites," Maci, Farrah, Catelynn and Amber. The show chronicles the children's first years of life and their mother's struggles to maintain relationships, finish school and have jobs.
The show for the most part chronicles Maci the best, her struggles trying to keep her relationship alive with her son's father, taking classes to get a degree and maintaining friendships with friends who have moved off to college.
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| Amber Portwood assaulting boyfriend/baby's father Gary. Photo courtesy of Babble |
Amber's story is much the opposite. Her and her baby's father Gary fight constantly around their daughter Leah. Usually they just scream at each other until one or the other moves out. A few times though, Amber got violent, and it was caught on camera.
With baby Leah literally just feet away, MTV viewers watched as she slapped and punched him. This led to the local police department launching an investigation into her actions and charging Amber with domestic violence.
Amber lost custody and served time in jail since and has recently had nude photos leaked of herself.
MTV then launched Teen Mom 2, covering four all new teenage mothers from past 16 and Pregnant episodes.
This time we followed Leah and Corey's engagement and ultimate wedding while battling health issues of one of their twins, Ali, Chelsea's tumultuous relationship with her daughter's father, Kailyn's battle to get out of her son's father's parent's house and on her own and Jenelle's custody battle with her mother over her son Jace.
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| Jenelle Evans' mugshot courtesy of FOX News |
Jenelle lost custody of her son to her mother on the show and last October was arrested for drug possession and breaking into a house along with her boyfriend, Kieffer. She was arrested again Sunday, March 27th for her role in a viral TMZ video in which she is seen attacking another girl.
Real classy.
Maybe MTV should look into replacing these terrible examples and stop giving them the fuel to their flames. If the cameras would stop rolling maybe they would get their lives on track.
Just a thought.
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