There were four girls that were all teen mothers and all of them have problems. One of the girls named Catelyn had her daughter and had to give the daughter up for adoption. That is something she will never get over. Her and her boyfriend are having problems because he didn't want to give their daughter up but they had to do what was best for the baby. Catelyn is just graduating from high school and wants to be a Nurse but doesn't know what school she should go to because she wants to fight to get her daughter back but doesn't know if she can go to a big school while raising her daughter.
There's another girl named Amber and she's all messed up. This girl dropped out of high school when she really didn't have to but thought she had to in order to be able to raise her daughter. Dropping out of high school means getting a job but her and her boyfriend are jobless.
Another one of the teen mothers name is Maci and she is actually not doing so bad except chosing the wrong father as her sons dad, which most young girls do. They thought they were going to be together forever but once she had the baby their relationship took another turn and they split up. Now they both have a new boyfriend and girlfriend and Maci is trying to fight to get child support from him. She works full time and goes to a community college full time, while being a mother.
Last but not least is a girl named Farrah and she and her mother are always fighting and when I say fighting I mean really fist fighting. Her daughters father isn't in her life so she is really a single mom. She was trying for the longest to get out of her mothers house and get her own but needed more money. She is also a student at a community college but loved school and wish she could have gone to a better college but had to do what she had to do for her daughter.
The is a reenactment of a MTV series called Teen Mom which is my primary source. In this short story I made a couple of details up but for the most part this is all the truth. The point in this is to show how MTV perceives teenage mothers. They see them as drop outs and young moms who are struggling and have all types of relationship problems whether it's with their men or family. In this show you never here these girls talk about what they want to be and what college they really want or wanted to go to.
All this series shows is all drama and bad things to being a mother but what about the good things. What about all the opportunities that a lot of big universities have for teen mothers like OSU? Why don't MTV or any T.V station for that matter motivate these girls to go to big colleges and pursue their dreams with their babies. Instead they make T.V series about their relationships and drama instead of college and all the choices they have. Nothing was really lost in this reenactment but a lot was actually brought to my forefront like me realizing how MTV views teenage mothers.
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