So the Spears clan has pimped out all their daughters? Didn't they learn their lesson with the first one?

Maybe it'll get lucky and she'll consider adoption...

No doubt this lot doesn't "believe" in abortion. Scum.

"I haven't spoken to (Nickelodeon) personally, but they have always been so great to me over the past years and have given me so many opportunities."

Yeah, somehow I don't think they'll be writing a 16-year-old pregnant girl into their story line.

Furthermore how nice is that to blab the news to the world through a magazine before sitting down and having a conversation with your boss. Not that I'd expect a 16-year-old pregnant girl to be responsible but c'mon!

CRASS ASSHOLES - IT IS HER BODY, EVEN AT SIXTEEN - GOD WHAT A BUNCH OF STUPID AND IGNORANT PEOPLE

SO WHAT IN HELL IS IT TO YOU - FEELS LIKE A SMALL TOWN MEETING OF THE MORALITY POLICE - WHY NOT BURN HER AT THE STAKE, SURELY THE DEVIL'S CHILD

And the count down until her show is on "hiatus" begins....

Advice to the Spears children.

Adam,

please take the caps lock off, dear.

She's a perfect Republican -- "Do as I say, not as I do."

I don't believe the pregnancy will end. Her sister, Britney, has proven the family's physical ability to reproduce.

@4, I could have lived without all caps, but I kind of agree with you. I marginally follow this crap, but it's everywhere you look...but really -- if she wanted to get an abortion and was denied, everyone would be raising hell. She wants to keep the pregnancy and everyone villifies her.

She's a kid, raised by idiots with no great role models. She's not unlike millions of other teenagers in that regard.

That said, boy, are they a fertile bunch. If they weren't so stupid, I'd say they could make a lot of money being surrogates, but I know I wouldn't want those genes to raise. There's only so much nurture can do with their nature.

I hope it's quints.

15 to 40 percent? Damn, that make my mother's 8 for 8 a minor miracle.

If we are going to vilify anybody hang the dumb ass parents that watched their first daughter ruin her life and then allowed the second one to do the same.
These parents have practically prostituted their daughters for fames sake or money.

I hope her pregnancy goes fine! This girl wont win in any circle. The media is going to crucify her.
Both these girls are destined to become fat tragic 40 year olds with 8 kids each.

Can I just say, for the record, that until a Slog tipper sent me this link... I didn't even know Spears had a sister.

Carry on.

"15 and 40 percent of all pregnancies fail in the first 20 weeks, which means there’s still hope."

That's just straight out vicious. Why would you wish that on someone?

The Quebecois may have invent the "Revenge of the Cradle," but the Texans are going to perfect it.

sorry "invented"

You mean you don't keep up on the Spears sisters?

I didn't know Spears had a sister either!

I just want to hit their mother upside the head. You would think she would have insisted her daughter take birth control.

I know sixteen is old enough to know better but I still think the mother is Captain of the ding squad.

But I have this strong opinion about parents who sell their children to Hollywood. It is the best way to ruin your kid.

why do we even care? ignore the buzz in your ears people... it's just the sound of nothing ending.

I'm not for or against abortion, I believe it's the chicks decision, but I am for killing this baby.

I'm shocked. I had high hopes for Jamie.

People, I think we're missing the bigger picture: at least it's not Britney that's knocked up. I'm pretty sure this one will be able to hold onto the kid and not lose it to CPS.

I wonder if Mom Spears ever sits herself down and goes "what the fuck did I do to my kids?"

"Lynn Spears' parenting book 'delayed indefinitely'", according to People.com.

No shit. Who wants parenting advice from her?

Jamie Lynn and Britney should have a "take care of baby"-off

A battle of will and wits to see who the better parent is

@ 22

"Who wants parenting advice from her?"

Dina Lohan?

@ 14, I agree. For a group that claims to be "progressive" and "open-minded", this post and these comments sound awfully judgemental. I sincerely doubt anyone has ever met either of the spears, regardless- its none of our business.

And if wishing a miscarriage upon a 16 year old girl is the new liberal philosophy, I'm ashamed to call myself liberal.

Furthermore, the primary reason that abortion is legal is because the law states that the government should have no control over the decisions a woman makes about her own body- which includes *keeping* the baby, if she so chooses.

Good choice of photo, Dan. I've always been slightly disturbed by how much teenage girls just nonchalantly advertise what huge sluts they are (but take none of the precautions that make being an adult slut so fun).

abstinence education at work

@31, are you for real?

That girl has no idea what's going to happen to her and her body. She may have watched her sister have her babies, but it's oh so different when it's your body.

And -- not to be too patronizing to 16-year-olds, but that's a time of experimentation and pushing boundaries. Consequences don't have the same meaning as they do to adults. I'm not sure when adulthood is, but I'm pretty sure it's not 16.

#33

age of consent is 16

can get killed in war at 18

vote at 18

drive at 16

what the hell is your concept of adult? living at mommies and daddies until you are 30 - I emancipated myself at 16 - just to be free, have great relationship with parents

#31
bet there are more 16 year olds on birth control than women at 46

you are just full of envy about all the 16 year old girls getting fucked twice a day if they wish

Age of consent varies from state to state. In many places, a 16 year old girl's pregnancy will spell the statutory rape charges against the sperm donor (or father, whatever).

I googled the name "Casey Aldridge" (because I had no idea who he is) and found mention that he's 19.

So, depending upon the state in which the sexual intercourse occurred, Casey could be facing criminal charges and a permanent spot on a sexual offenders' list.

My heart breaks for the potential child that she's carrying. Having seen what her older sister's children are going through, wow.... what a future.

$50 says she's a more successful mom than her sister, her age notwithstanding. For starters, she's under far less media scrutiny. or at least she has been until now.

@34

Age of consent

LOUISIANA 17

Louisiana law allows prosecutors to seek the death penalty for people
convicted of having consensual sex with a person under 12 years old. The
Louisiana state Supreme Court declared the law constitutional in 1999
because of a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court ruling addressing the rape of an adult,
not a child. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1977 banned the death penalty for
raping adult women, but the justices did not say whether it could be applied
to child rapists. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the 1999 Louisiana
case, allowing the death penalty law to stand.

I think they're gonna need a bigger trailer.

that's horrible dan. even if it's awful that she is pregnant at age 16, for someone even to casually wish that a pregnancy would fail is to show a degree of callousness that is downright shocking. how can you publicly wish such trauma on someone, no matter how despised? ugh. you should really retract that comment.

I shouldn't admit this, but my most recent perusal of the "news" (OK, supermarket tabloids) suggests that Britney is pregnant too. I wonder who is due first?

I am shocked - SHOCKED - to discover that teenagers are having sex at 16.

Please, give this whole, "I'm shocked, SHOCKED that Dan would say that he wants her to miscarry" thing a rest. Do you people not have a sense of humor? It may have been crass, but it's still a joke. Oh, and Dan, most miscarriages happen before 12 weeks, so, you're probably SOL.

And, I don't think anybody is judging her because she's keeping the baby as opposed to having an abortion. If I'm judging her, it's because she didn't have the sense to use birth control.

And thus, the genepool is further diluted.

Hmmm... methinks someone saw Juno this weekend!

Just another case of life crappily imitating art.

yeah... seriously guys... chill the fuck out.

these people aren't even real. please don't pretend that you actually care about what happens within the womb of... what's her name? Jamie?

it was a joke, it was funny. I bet she's praying for a miscarriage too. I would be if I was 16.

The least you can do when you allow a young man to move into your 15 year old daughter's bedroom, is watch her take her pill every morning. Or take her to the doctor for a depo shot every couple of months. But they met at church so its OK!

Now we can congratulate Britney for waiting as long as she did to have her first child.

And Justin Timberlake's parents for teaching him not to get trapped by that skanky family.

What message does she want to send to other teens about premarital sex? “I definitely don’t think it’s something you should do; it’s better to wait,”

Abstinence only sex education at its finest.

I wonder if she's seen Juno yet?

@? people here are being judgmental not because they are not liberal, but because they can recognize a poor choice (to not use protection). there is a difference between being judgmental (on a blog no less) and passing laws to mandate behavior. now, if posters start saying that all 16 year old girls should have an abortion, or be reported to CPS... then you have grounds for complaint.

All unmarried 16-year-olds should have abortions if they become pregnant.

Bah. This sort of thing doesn't happen to *Disney* child stars.

Anyway, you'd think Jamie Lynn would have learned a lesson from her big sister. I guess she learned the wrong lesson. I really thought she was the bright one.

I doubt Nick wants to write in a pregnancy for young innocent Zoey Brooks who has never even kissed a boy, nor would fictional Pacific Coast Academy, which only recently started accepting girls in the first place, want to deal with the scandal of just how unmanaged their newly-coed student body is.

Isabelita -

You are very right that the Spears don't 'believe' in abortion. Britney Spears is a big old anti-choice freak.

Don't you remember that horrible statue of her naked and pregnant giving birth on a bear skinned rug. It was called "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston" and it was fucking creepy!

@47

Britney Spears neither commission or endorsed that statue. The artist is a media whore who has also made statues of the likes of Paris Hilton, all for the media attention.

Finish the fucking quote, Dan.

"I definitely don't think it's something you should do; it's better to wait," she told the magazine. "But I can't be judgmental because it's a position I put myself in."

SHOULD she keep the child. Probobly not, but that is her choice right? Still ... she has been brain washed into thinking that keeping the child is only choice.

And the abstinence only tagline to make herself a fucking saterday afternoon special is really really nice.

Where the hell are we, midieval England?

I guess ... how many of you KNOW people that are little bit fucked up from their parents who had you a little too young, and wish things were a little different, wish your parents and have known parents that should have exercised their rights a little bit more when they had them. What's done is done ... and you deal the best you can, but it really really sucks to watch your parents grow up sometimes, and sometimes, more often than people would like to admit, this country has enough fucked up people force raised by religion.

The sick about religion it can tell you to have a family, but it can't tell you to love it, or at least love it completely.

Call me, or ALL of us judgemental. But hoping for a miscarriage is just so we don't have to worry about another pissed off, compromised love, waste of space child to commit more violent crimes, and of course wrecklessly breed.

Kinda reminds me of the movie "Idiocracy."

Wow. Just wow. I wonder if she, like her older sis, is a Bush backer. Certainly sounds very Republican. Advocating abstinence only? Check. Telling other people when/how to have sex but doing whatever the hell she wants? Check.

Let's just pray that it turns out gay and free-willed. That way, at least it won't continue the cycle of reckless breeding.

well, a miscarriage is preferable to an abortion, anyway. and looks like neither is going to happen. now, can we move on?

I would totally fuck both of them - little miss naughty - that's sweet

If they marry the problem of statutory rape would become moot and many states allow marriage at that age with parental consent. So, I wonder if there is a deal in the works for "OK!" to get an exclusive on the wedding pics. That would be both lucrative AND tasteless.
A rape trial would be more salacious and get more coverage,though, so I am sure the family is in a quandary.

"You would think she would have insisted her daughter take birth control."

Don't you know that birth control causes abortions? Geeze. It's like, totally immoral.

"I am shocked - SHOCKED - to discover that teenagers are having sex at 16."
Rumor has it some of them also drink and smoke pot.

@45. "are you being sarcastic, dude?"

It is pretty harsh to wish a miscarriage on someone, but in high school I knew a 16-year-old girl who was fucking thrilled to have a miscarriage when the pill didn't work.

@59: nope. All unmarried pregnant 16 year olds should abort. Having a baby ruins their lives.

I guess when your mom lets your boyfriend live with you, shit will happen.

Independent of whether having a baby at 16 is a good thing to do or not, wishing a miscarriage on someone else seems more than a tad harsh. It's like wishing AIDS or cancer on them. Can't we save that for Dick Cheney and Ted Haggard-types?

Speaking as someone who thinks Dan is a living god, I hate this new trend on the SLOG to flame anyone who gives a reply that's anything other than 100% supportive.

If some, such as I, say that it's too harsh to wish a miscarraige on Ms Spears, we're not Ecce and we're not killjoy stiffs. We just think some jokes are so barbed or shrill as to lose their effectiveness.

@64 ... speaking form personal experience. Life is messy enough as it is ...

In my mind I like to think of a baby as a rock about to tumble down a hill. Sometimes you can see the hill it's going down and it's not worth the baggage and grime it's going to collect