Kids who watched most sex content twice as likely to face issue
Washington Post Nov 3, 08 9:37 AM CST
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Teenagers who watch more sexual content on TV are far more likely to face pregnancy, a new study suggests. Of 700 teens interviewed over 3 years, those who watched the most sexual material—on shows such as Friends and Sex and the City —were about twice as likely to get pregnant or make someone pregnant as those who watched the least, the Washington Post reports.
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Tells OK! she'll wait until baby is older
OK! Oct 9, 08 8:36 AM CDT
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Teen mom Jamie Lynn Spears has nixed plans to wed her babydaddy in the short term, reports the New York Daily News . "We both agree that we want Maddie to be a little bit older so that she can be a part of it," Britney Spears’ kid sis tells OK! "We are engaged…There is no rush for anything." She also called reports of Casey Aldridge’s womanizing “completely fabricated.”
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School where 17 teens got pregnant last year OKs birth control plan
Boston Herald Oct 9, 08 4:46 AM CDT
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A Massachusetts high school where 17 teens got pregnant last year presumably as part of a "pregnancy pact" has decided to distribute birth control pills and condoms to students, the Boston Globe reports. A school official said birth control would only be available with parental consent, adding that he hoped the school could now move on following national news reports of the pregnancy pact, allegedly made by teens who wanted to raise their babies together.
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Her daughter, on other hand, was 'crucified'
Newsweek Sep 19, 08 3:00 PM CDT
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Lynne Spears has gone on the offensive, telling Newsweek that a "hypocritical" press and public "crucified" her family when Jamie Lynn got pregnant at 16, but "celebrated" Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin for her daughter Bristol's teen pregnancy. "It's a totally different reaction."
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ANALYSIS
Girls lust after
saucy look, but
not so hot for sex
Time Sep 14, 08 4:59 AM CDT
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High-profile pregnant teens like Bristol Palin and Jamie-Lynn Spears paint a picture of teenage girls run amok with lust, writes Belinda Luscombe in Time . But while “girls seem to have moved from Easy-Bake to easy virtue” in the last generation, Luscombe argues that the teens are often more interested in trying on the sexy rather than in having the sex implied in the pop culture images that bombard them.
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Tab claims would-be VP kicked pregnant Bristol out of house
National Enquirer Sep 10, 08 11:04 AM CDT
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Sarah Palin’s Iraq-bound 19-year-old son, Track, was addicted to the painkiller OxyContin and binged on cocaine before joining the army last year, the National Enquirer reports. The supermarket tab also claims the Alaska governor kicked 17-year-old daughter Bristol—also supposedly a party animal—out of the house and made her switch schools when she learned of the teen's unexpected pregnancy.
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17-year-old pregnant daughter of Republican VP pick has actual ring
TMZ Sep 4, 08 5:10 PM CDT
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Levi Johnston, boyfriend and father-to-be of Sarah Palin's teenage daughter Bristol is apparently serious about doing the right thing with the potential first kid: He's sporting a 'Bristol' tattoo in the place of an engagement ring, TMZ comments. “In lieu of a tramp stamp,” the celeb site adds snarkily, “Bristol Palin went with the more traditional unwed pregnant teen engagement ring.”
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Jamie Lynn Spears sends bibs, tells fellow 17-year-old Bristol Palin to 'hang in there'
ABC News Sep 4, 08 12:43 PM CDT
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Jamie Lynn Spears, bumped from her perch as America’s most famous unwed teen mom, sent Sarah Palin’s daughter a note of support and a baby present, ABC reports. Spears sent the 5-months-pregnant Bristol, also 17, $60 burp cloths from a luxe Los Angeles baby shop, with a note that read “Dear Bristol, Hang in there! XXOO, Jamie Lynn Spears.”
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Future son-in-law in wings for big speech
Associated Press Sep 3, 08 4:30 AM CDT
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Bristol Palin's babydaddy is on his way to join the family at the Republican National Convention, AP reports. Hockey-loving Levi Johnston, 18, left Alaska for Minnesota yesterday, according to his mom, who said the young couple planned to marry even before they knew 17-year-old Bristol was pregnant. Sarah Palin, whose bombshell announcement that her daughter was five months pregnant quickly overshadowed the convention, addresses delegates tonight.
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Entertainment Tonight Sep 2, 08 6:12 PM CDT
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Lindsay Lohan has some advice for Sarah Palin: Stick to the issues. On her MySpace blog, the actress writes that she’s “concerned” John McCain’s GOP running mate “brought the attention to her daughter’s pregnancy, rather than all world issues and what she believes she could possibly do to change them—if elected.” The disclosure is “distracting voters,” Lohan writes.
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Both support abstinence-only sex ed
Associated Press Sep 2, 08 6:03 AM CDT
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Pregnancies in 17-year-olds like Bristol Palin are something John McCain and his running mate, her mother, agree on: neither believes the government should support sex education and pregnancy-prevention programs, other than encouraging abstinence, in schools. "The explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support," Sarah Palin wrote in a 2006 questionnaire for gubernatorial candidates.
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Bristol's pregnancy no secret in hometown
New York Daily News Sep 2, 08 4:58 AM CDT
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Bristol Palin's husband-to-be is a self-described "redneck" hockey player who "doesn't want kids," according to his MySpace page. High school senior Levi Johnston has been dating the 17-year-old daughter of John McCain's new running mate for a year, and the teen's pregnancy was no secret in Wasilla, Alaska, reports the New York Daily News . The Wasilla Warriors coach describes Johnston, 18, as "a good kid."
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Daughter's pregnancy makes Palin even more popular among religious right
CNN Sep 2, 08 3:45 AM CDT
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Evangelical groups are standing squarely behind Sarah Palin and her family following the news that her teenage daughter Bristol is pregnant, CNN reports. Pro-life leaders hailed Bristol's decision to keep her baby with her family's support and dismissed any suggestion that her pregnancy is at odds with Palin's promotion of teen abstinence.
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