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Mothwing ([identity profile] mothwing.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] mothwing 2011-09-27 08:14 pm (UTC)

I agree, it is VERY dangerous, especially for the very young target audience. IDGI, either, do they WANT teenaged parents? The syrupy harmony of the scenarios in spite of all the conflicts makes drives me crazy. They gloss over every problem, too. Sure, we HEAR that the teenage father has to get a job and work after school, but do we ever see him struggle with the stress? No. He quite happily gets a job, works with a pal, has a wacky and likeable boss, no stress. We HEAR the teenage mother complaining about never getting to do anything with her friends, which, at the time in the series, is perplexing, because she hangs out with her friends every day and doesn't seem to have any such problems.

However, as I have noticed amongst friends who have kids, hardly anybody thinks about what happens to friendships or their own relationship beforehand, no matter if the child was planed or not.
I noticed the same trend. Also, people tend to arrange things in such a way that you wind up with two mentally and physically exhausted, tired parents because both sleep where they can hear the baby. I read about couples taking turns co-sleeping in a separate room, and that works, too, why not do that?

In the series? We rarely ever see the very real and the very annoying parts of parenting. It's all carrying a perfectly well-behaved, cute baby around for short trips to the car or to a stroller while everybody lights up at his or her sight.

Babies fix everything.

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