Newsweek: How Hollywood sugarcoats teen pregnancy

Once taboo, pregnant teenagers are popping up more frequently on TV, in movies and on magazine covers. The problem? This latest pop-culture coverage doesn't show what comes before or after. The Glamorous Life of a Teen Mom? 7/18/08: As movies and TV cover teen pregnancy, one young mother explains how having a baby changed her life. (Video: Jessica Bloustein) It could have been Immaculate Conception. In the premiere episode of the new drama "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," 15-year-old Amy comes home from band practice and is shocked--the pregnancy test is positive! That two-second tryst at band camp, as she describes it to her friends, "was definitely not like what you see in the movies." They share the same confusion: how did a good girl end up in this situation? The obvious answer (Amy had unprotected sex) never... [read full story]