NBC's new reality show "The Baby Borrowers" takes five teenage couples through a crash course in adulthood tasking them with responsibilities such as a house payment, a job, and for three days, the care of a baby (and later, a toddler, pre-teen and elderly person). Many bloggers and others are up in arms over infants being separated from their parents for so long for a so-called "social experiment" saying it is irresponsible television and some have even called it child abuse.

Have you seen these ads? They were created by a Milwaukee, Wisconsin ad group with residents of Milwaukee as the targets, but they have been popping up all over the blog world. I have seen three different pictures of teenage boys with pregnant bellies photoshopped on. Source: One Milwaukee

If there is one thing I wish I had the power to do, it is the ability to force people to live by their stated convictions. I think that this actually cuts across the entire length of the political spectrum, as there are many people who claim to be liberal or feminists who undermine equality and fairness, but of course, my interest in this is most piqued by conservative women. If all individuals actually had to practice what they preach, I am curious how quickly their messages would change. On Sunday, I read a fascinating column in the New York Times by one of my favorite hypocrites, Caitlin Flanagan (she of the “all women should quit their jobs and be stay-at-home moms just like me except that I have a job as a writer and a full-time child care provider who cleans up after my vomiting child while I stand in the doorway giving encouragement” claim to fame), about teen pregnancy. Bracing myself, I began reading ”Sex and the Teenage Girl”, and was surprised to find myself nodding to Flangan’s assertion that in the movie Juno (which I loved): …there is a moment when Juno tells her father about her condition, and he shakes his head in disappointment and says, “I thought you were the kind of girl who knew when to say when.” Female viewers flinch when he says it, because his words lay bare the bitterly unfair truth of sexuality: female desire can bring with it a form of punishment no man can begin to imagine, and so it is one appetite women and girls must always regard with caution.

So. The breaking news from the land of swimming pools and movie stars is NOT that Britney Spears is pregnant again, as was rumored recently, but that her teenaged sister, Jamie Lynn, is. This has raised some debate in the blogworld. I am seeing "Mother of the Year" thrown around sarcastically in the direction of Lynne Spears, Britney and Jamie Lynn's mother. Is this really Lynne's fault, though? Really?