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[jw7579]

Airs tonight on TLC at 10:00 PM ET.

New TLC Special: My Teen Is Pregnant And So Am I!

The network that brought you Jon & Kate Plus 8 is delving into the world of teen pregnancy with a new special called My Teen Is Pregnant And So Am I where young girls and their moms are expecting a baby at the same time.

In a sneak peek of the TLC special, 36-year-old Ann and her 17-year-old daughter Liz were both pregnant and they spoke exclusively to RadarOnline.com about the struggles they’re having as a mother and daughter with new babies.

Going by this description in the link, Liz sounds like she's going to be a real charmer.

“She makes me so frustrated! She is the most annoying person ever. Oh my God! Dude, she is always telling me that his diaper is poopy and she doesn’t understand that a boy diaper bunches out more than one a girl is wearing because of his part. She’s used to girls and when she tells me how to take care of my son she doesn’t know what she’s talking about! She clipped his nails and she clipped his finger, I was so mad!”

[DesiLu]

I saw the commercial for this last night when I was in bed half asleep. I was hoping I had dreamt it but I guess not.

Sounds trashy as hell, so of course, I'll be watching!

[jalfredprufrock]

Oh my God - this sounds unbelievable. I will definitely check it out.

[CPP83]

So this is TLC's answer to MTV famed teenage mama drama. The mother who was so thrilled that her daughter was pregnant was an absolute idiot. And so was her ex. I only felt sorry for the newborns and the four year old. The daughter was who her mother raised her to be, obviously. It was clear to me that the mother had ceased maturing when she too got pregnant at 17 and her daughter was on the exact same crash course. I also hated how much help the teens were being given and how they're not being forced to take responsibility for themselves or their son.

The other family seemed very Southern, in the worse sense of that word, like some LMN movie come to life. They never stopped crying, and the stepfather looked 45 if he was a day. Typical dumb daughter, "shocked parents", slacker baby daddy, and how it all seems to work out in the end, because the parents are going to support them despite whatever the kids are, or aren't, doing.

[WhitneyWhit]

What in the name of Amber Portwood is this mess?!

"It's ok to have a baby at 17 as long as your stable and mature" But here's the thing, no 17 year old is stable enough to have a kid. I swear, it took me a good 20 minutes to figure out who was the daugher and who was the mother with Anna and Liz. And no, that isn't a compliment, because Liz looked 40.

The South Carolina family was like a SNL parody of Teen Mom, just every sterotype right out in the open. I always enjoy the parents who put their foot down at the baby daddies spending the night, like people will think their daughters pregnancies were emaculate if no guy is around. "We have other children in the house who are innocent" For now, won't be long till that changes because his wife was too dumb to realize that a 17 year old having a baby is not a good or fun thing.

Seriously TLC, when you hit the bottom, you stop digging!

[wellwhaddyaknow]

Yawn, yawn, yawn.
Whine, whine, whine.

Seriously???

(*I meant the show, not you posters! :) )

Edited by wellwhaddyaknow, Aug 2, 2012 @ 1:58 AM.

[BessieLimpet]

I was too creeped out by the step father pointing at his step daughter and screaming "That is mine" to notice anything else. I hated that loud mouth piece of shit.

[BuddhaBelly]

That was her stepfather? I'm thought that was her biological father. I didn't mind it in the context of conversation. That's still his underage daughter and the idiot that got her pregnant uprooted her from the house in some sort of power play against her parents.

I didn't think her mom thought it was fun or good. She seemed pretty heartbroken about the whole thing

[BessieLimpet]

I didn't like it at all. He screams to the teen dad "You don't own that, that's mine", it disgusted me. You don't own her either asshole.

Yes, he was her step father.

Im my opinion, he didn't "get" her pregnant, I'm sure she was a willing participant. And she also had a choice in wether to leave her house or not.

Edited by BessieLimpet, Aug 2, 2012 @ 1:22 PM.

[ButterQueen]

Count me in on the hate of the step-father. He has serious anger issues. I know his wife was upset that her 17 year old daughter was pregnant, but could she have been any more heartless at the daughter's ultrasound. The girl was weeks from delivery, the mom sat in the chair and cried the whole time, without looking at the screen once, and then proceeded to lecture her daughter in the doctor's office about how disappointed she was in her, until the daughter just completely broke down. God that hurt my heart.

As for the other two---both are delusional and the daughter and her boyfriend were so lazy. Drove me nuts that they were upset with the grandmother when she wanted them to take care of their own baby. The grandmother watched the baby all day while they slept.

I can only hope there aren't too many pregnant moms/daughters for a whole season of shows.

[BuddhaBelly]

I guess he didn't bother me. I understood the context of him saying "This is mine" as in this is my daughter who is part of my family and I have the responsibility to take see to her well being in response to that boy's "I need to take care of my own" However, I readily admit my Daddy's Southern and only has three girls so I'm biased.

I also didn't think he was angrier than most dads would get if their 17 yr old got pregnant. I thought he did a good job of trying to back track on his anger and come to a consensus with the teens. He didn't just yell but stopped to talk and comfort.

I'm not going to say anything about the mom because she was going through her own hormonal upheaval with her pregnancy which I'm sure made everything worse.

[marysue22]

Saw the preview for this show on the news and all I have to say is trash breeds trash. How much of a fucking failure do you have to be for your seventeen year old daughter to get knocked up at the same time as you?! Also, why be proud of it? Corporal punishment was obviously lacking in that household or at least a healthy dose of fear of your parents. Disgusting that an endless cycle of teen parents will continue with Liz's son.

[Wok Chop]

What a bunch of horrible people!

Anyone besides me think the pregnant-by-her-ex lady got knocked up on purpose?

I agree with everything that has been said about the creepy stepdaddy. "THIS is MINE!" Jesus, what a creep! And I loved how he kept screaming at the babydaddy and, all of a sudden, they would both be sobbing together. Dude needs some meds.

These types of shows make a strong case for eugenics. :P

[WhiteLock]

the mom sat in the chair and cried the whole time, without looking at the screen once

She was staring at the screen the whole time. There was a second screen on the wall across from her that's there so the person getting the ultrasound can see clearly. You could see the daughter look at it often, as the tech pointed different things.

[lvopera42]

See, I didn't have a big problem with the stepfather (who IMO used a poor choice of words when he said "This is MINE"). I think he was making a point to the boyfriend that until the kid steps up, gets a job and starts acting like a responsible father-to-be, step dad IS responsible for her because she isn't 18 yet. I just think he was frustrated (understandably so) and upset at the situation. Not knowing where she was while his wife is in labor? It's selfish on the daughter's part, for sure. But we are dealing with teenagers here...prime example of why they shouldn't be having a kid when they are still kids themselves. And frankly, her mother being so upset the whole time is completely understandable...she was a young teen mom, she knows how hard it is and wanted better for her daughter. Even with educating your kids about birth control, sometimes kids who were taught well STILL do stupid things and get pregnant. I think her reaction is certainly more realistic and appropriate than the other mom on this show who was happy about it! Speaking of that.....

SMH for the other twit and her mouth breathing boyfriend. Get your asses out of bed and take care of your baby!!! And the grandmother should have been firmer about saying "Okay, I get that you work crazy hours and I can help from this time to this so you can get just enough sleep to function, but I'm not going to be here all day while you two sleep all day!" Enabling them isn't helping. I don't have a problem with SOME help if they are at work in overlapping shifts, etc. That's one thing- but letting them sleep all day? Fo freaking way. That's buillshit.