And even then, I expect it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Ginger writes about this on her blog:

In the real world, where there are no big time Hollywood agents
working out million-dollar exclusive photo deals for you, many teenage
mothers and fathers end up struggling to finish high school, more times
than not choosing instead to get blue-collar jobs to make ends meet.
Hopefully, there might be a grandparent around who can babysit while
the parent goes out and works to support the child…that is, unless the
teenaged mom decides to put the child up for adoption, or opts to
terminate the pregnancy.

Teenage pregnancy isn’t the world that Zoey 101’s Jamie Lynn Spears
is portraying to you in the glossy pages of OK! Magazine, my dear.

I, myself, was a teen mom. Okay, I was 18 when my son was born- old enough to vote, old enough to hold down most kinds of jobs- and it was still ridiculously hard. I was lucky enough to be able to go to college, but I watched wistfully as my friends went out any time they felt like it. I missed out on many study sessions because I was unable to arrange babysitting. And worst of all, because I was going to school and working to make sure my son and I stayed fed, clothed, and sheltered, I missed out on much of his early childhood.

I hate to see the media glamorizing Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy and birth because that’s not what it’s really like. Let’s take her shiny kitchen and totally trash it. Or put it in a trailer, because that’s what you’re truly heading for, teen moms. I started out my adult life in debt for all the medical bills incurred with my son. I’m 32 years old now and I’m still feeling effects from that.

Try telling that story, media.