Is there evidence of any alternative representations of this group of people/place in the media, perhaps in different genres? If not, why do you think this is the case?
Even in celebrity lives we see the issue of teenage pregnancy, when Jamie Lynn Spears fell pregnant last year at the age of 18, her whole family name had been affected alongside Britney spears’ shenanigans.
Predominantly the representation of pregnant teens is negative. The topic of teenage pregnancy has consumed up most of media, from newspapers to music videos, from magazines to movies. All the pregnant teens that are shown in these platforms are shown to be immature people who are not ready to have children yet want to prove their maturity by having a pregnant.
Asian cultures are still very strict on their rules of sex, and we barely see any Asian pregnant teens in the media, whereas the western society is much more open on the topic of sex, and more comfortable about talking about it and accepting sex before marriage in this day and age.
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