Teen Mom Research Paper

Teen Mom has been an innovative show in the reality show industry because it has opened up to society what a teenage mother goes through as she raises her first child. These girls have matured a long way throughout their Childs birth and their upbringing. The show presents four Teenage girls, now eighteen, struggling with money, school, and dating as well as dealing with insecurities, their parents, the father of their children and for a couple and a mother and daughter, domestic violence. While society usually judges girls who get pregnant at any early age, this reality show has bought into terms the reflection of these four women and how they stand in or stand out of the teen pregnancy statistics. Teen Moms huge success and its continuity on MTV where it had premiered for a few almost two seasons have been very controversial to many viewers. The criticism of making paying these girls to let people into their lives and see how they live is only the beginning of their reality show world. Through my research, one of the things that I will question is how has Teen Mom effected the societies perception of teen pregnancy. I will also do some research to analyze how the show has changed other television programs like
I will mostly focus on criticism on broadcasting the lives of these girls. I will also look at television sitcoms like The Secret Life of the American Teenager and talk shows like Maury. And movies like Juno. I will also look in to the lives of Bristol Palin and Jaime Lynn Spears who are always in the spot light. During my research in these topics, I will ask myself, is the media promoting teen pregnancy? In my search I will check the lives (background) of the executive producers and writers of each show and link them to the concept of teen