Yes, apparently it seems the growing increasingly popular thing to get pregnant while you are still a teenager - not even finished growing up yourself. Here is an interesting article I found this week.
"Social stigmas surrounding teenage pregnancy may be slowly disappearing. The change is slowly developing as the number of young moms is on the rise.
Movies like Juno and real life story of Jamie Lynn Spears' unplanned pregnancy are making early motherhood more acceptable. Cathy Gulli, an associate editor with Maclean's magazine, explained the trend.
"Hollywood moms are the 'it' thing right now," said Gulli.
In the latest edition, Gulli wrote the teen birth rate in the US is up for the first time since 1991 and is also likely rising here. The bigger numbers mean changing social stigmas.
"Teen pregnancy isn't demonized or the cause of shame that it once was," she said, adding that it simply isn't as taboo as it used to be."
Source: http://www.680news.com/news/local/article.jsp?content=20080117_081101_7336
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