Fox News Channel’s ‘Studio B’ fill-in host Trace Gallagher spoke with psychologist Dr. Keith Kanner on the pregnancy of Britney Spears’ 16-year-old sister Jamie Lynn and the subsequent shelving of their mother Lynne’s planned book on parenting the two stars. Kanner suggested it’s not easy to raise celebrity kids because they’re home schooled.
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CNN ‘American Morning’ legal analyst Sunny Hostin talked about the pregnancy of Britney Spears’ 16-year-old sister Jamie Lynn Spears and statuatory rape questions since her boyfriend Casey Aldridge is 18 or 19. Hostin said it’s likely a moral issue and social issue, but the circumstances were probably legal. Watch the segment below. In addition, FoxNews.com’s Pop Tarts has more on this angle, with Sheriff Jimmy Travis of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, where the Spears family lives, saying, “From my preliminary investigation, she is 16 and he is 18. If, in fact, it happened in the state of Louisiana, that does not violate any criminal statutes.”
Clinical psychologist Dr. Judy Kuriansky talked with CNN’s Don Lemon about how the pregnancy of Britney Spears 16-year-old sister Jamie Lynn has opened the discussion about teens having babies. “This is a lesson for parents to talk to their kids about safe sex. What happens is that there are three reasons parents are afraid to bring up this subject. One is that they don’t know what to say. Second, they’re afraid that their own feelings and their own background they may be ashamed and embarrassed about. Third, they’re afraid if they talk to their kids about it they’re going to go out and do it, but research shows that it’s not true, it’s the opposite.” Watch the segment below.
‘The Early Show’ co-host Harry Smith spoke with Kim Serafin from In Touch Weekly about news Britney Spears’ 16-year-old sister Jamie Lynn that she is 12 weeks pregnant, and what this means for her acting career as the star of Nickelodeon’s ‘Zoey 101′. “For Nickelodeon to have one of their major stars pregnant, not such a great thing,” Kim said. “In addition to the association with her older sister Britney.” Kim added that Jamie Lynn “sounds for a 16-year-old, very mature, especially when compared to what we see from her sister these days. We certainly don’t see that kind of maturity coming out of Britney lately.” Watch the segment, aired Wednesday (December 19), below.
David Hinckley writes in the New York Daily News that Nickelodeon should cut ties with Britney Spears’ sister Jamie Lynn and not air season three of ‘Zoey 101′ for now being “an unmarried 16-year-old who announces her pregnancy on the cover of a magazine with a figurative shrug of ‘Oh well, whatever’.” He writes, “It can do this without thundering judgmental fury or self-righteous condemnation. It can maintain the appropriate compassion of its initial response, that her well-being is foremost. But at some point, if Nickelodeon keeps Spears on its airwaves, the network will seem to be saying that unmarried teen pregnancy, a major American problem, is negotiable if the unmarried teen is a good earner.” Read more.
A family insider tells Life & Style that Britney Spears’ pregnant 16-year-old sister Jamie Lynn and her fetus daddy Casey Aldridge are no longer a couple. “Jamie Lynn and Casey are not together,” the source revealed. “They’ve broken up numerous times, but he was her first and she kept taking him back. They’re not dating now. He’s really got nothing to offer this baby. He’s a kid himself. They have no plans to get married.” In fact, when the ‘Zoey 101′ star gives birth the insider said she “has asked her mom – and not Casey – to be in the delivery room with her.”
In a segment on MSNBC, The Scoop writer Courtney Hazlett wonders who Jamie Lynn Spears has to look up to as she deals with the fact that she’s now a pregnant teenager. Watch the video, aired Wednesday (December 19), below the fold.
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The Scoop columnist Courtney Hazlett visited ‘Morning Joe’ on Wednesday (December 19) to weigh in on the news that Britney Spears’ 16-year-old sister Jamie Lynn is pregnant, how it impacts the family, and her status at Nickelodeon, where she stars in the hit show ‘Zoey 101′. Hazlett hears Nickelodeon didn’t know about the news until yesterday. Watch the segment below the fold.
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In an interview with OK! magazine, the 16-year-old sister of Britney Spears announced that she is three months pregnant and will raise the child in Louisiana. ‘Today’ co-hosts Al Roker and Hoda Kotb spoke with educational psychologist Michele Borba about how parents should approach discussing this news with their children, and the warning signs parents should recognize to prevent finding their children in a similar position. Watch the segment, aired Wednesday (December 19), below the fold.
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Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney’s 16-year-old sister, told OK! magazine that she is pregnant. CNN’s Lola Ogunnaike reported on the news during a CNN.com report with Catherine Callaway. “Being pregnant on Nickelodeon, the two don’t go hand in hand,” Ogunnaike said. Watch the report below.