35 And Watching 16-Year-Old Moms

Meet my newest favorite comedy: MTV’s “16 and Preggers.”

This country is doomed.

Don’t know what I’m talking about? Here you go.

16 and Pregnant is an MTV reality television series produced by Morgan J. Freeman and Dia Sokol Savage, and was first broadcast on June 11, 2009. It follows the stories of pregnant teenage girls in high school dealing with the hardships of teenage pregnancy. Each episode features a different teenage girl, with the episode typically beginning when she is 4 1⁄2–8 months into her pregnancy. The episode typically ends when the baby is a few months old. The series is produced in a documentary format, with an animation on notebook paper showing highlights during each episode preceding the commercial breaks.

The funny thing is that these teenagers are HALF the age of me and already parents. Good God, if I had to support another human being when I was that age and continued to do so until the ripe ol’ age of 35 … that kid would be SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD by now.

So that means that by the time these new parents reach my age their kids will be having kids of their own. Oy.