Women's Studies 2161A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter w.5: Betty Crocker, Teen Mom, Moral Panic
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Chapter 5 100% preventable teen motherhood, morality, and the myth of choice (may. The young women of mtv"s 16 and pregnant (16ap) and teen mom ( ) presented an unfolding disasters; stripped of autonomy, with limited opportunities and all future promise taken away by their own poor choices. Challenges faced by young women who choose to parent are individual, evidence of bad choices or bad values or both. On the shows decision to parent result in a compromised life -social and educational choices curtailed future is presented as grim and lonely. Experience violence and verbal abuse from both their partners and their own parents. Violence: viewed as an inevitable consequence of the poor choice to indulge n promiscuous behaviour and thus welcome a life of young motherhood. These women are seen as getting what they deserve. Shows are considered as evidence of a moral panic around young motherhood.