# Another Spears kid on the way **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 19, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541 "2007-12-19T01:52:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/21 "2007-12-19T07:20:11Z")
Whyever not? Are they afraid Britney might be a bad influence on her younger sister? Might encourage her to get wild and funky and have sixteen-year old sex? Good thinkin’, keeping her away from such a bad influence. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/22 "2007-12-19T10:43:06Z")
I heard (on the radio, so I don’t know how reliable it is) that Spears and her boyfriend were living together, with her parent’s permission. So, really, what does her being in before her curfew have to do with it? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/23 "2007-12-19T10:59:15Z")
I have seen about 10 minutes of her show, and it seems to me that Jamie Lynn’s about as sharp as a sack full of wet mice. I hope that Jamie Lynn does the smart thing and put’s the kid up for adoption. Now, the _larger_ implications of this: How many girls are going to find out about this and think that it’s okay to be a teenage mother? ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/24 "2007-12-19T12:20:17Z")
[QUOTE=wring] anyone figure out the likely state of conception? and age of consent?Isn’t mom spears working on a book about raising children? i I smell best seller ! [/QUOTE] According to the Today show, the book has been put on hold. Can’t imagine why. At this point, I’d buy it to find out what kind of “advice” was in it. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/25 "2007-12-19T12:24:07Z")
Well, about the only non-stupid/psycho thing Britney’s ever done is to be estranged from her mother. Maybe Jamie Lynn’s gotten hip to the scene and this is her way of telling her mom “No more Zoey money for you, bitch!” ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/26 "2007-12-19T12:37:28Z")
Quick question-- is the boyfriend in legal trouble? I mean he’s 19 to her 16. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/27 "2007-12-19T13:12:12Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] Quick question-- is the boyfriend in legal trouble? I mean he’s 19 to her 16. [/QUOTE] depends on the answer to my question - seems clear she was 16 when baby conceived (her b’day is in April according to IMDB), 16 is the age of consent in some places, 17 in others. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/28 "2007-12-19T13:27:53Z")
:Sigh: When I heard about this on the radio this morning, I had a dreary vision of being inundated with “reports” about teenage pregnancy, all leading with “The announcement of 16 year-old “Zoey 101” star Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy has reignated the national debate over teenage pregnancy…” I’m bored with the “debate” already. Can we just consider it _done_? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/29 "2007-12-19T13:42:43Z")
[QUOTE=JohnT] :Sigh: When I heard about this on the radio this morning, I had a dreary vision of being inundated with “reports” about teenage pregnancy, all leading with “The announcement of 16 year-old “Zoey 101” star Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy has reignated the national debate over teenage pregnancy…” I’m bored with the “debate” already. Can we just consider it _done_? [/QUOTE] But Jamie is bucking the trend. [Teen pregnancy rates are the lowest in 30 years.](http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/2006/09/12/USTPstats.pdf) (PDF) ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/30 "2007-12-19T13:43:42Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Jesus. 16? Fuck. But we’re not supposed to call them white trash, right? [/QUOTE] Says who? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/31 "2007-12-19T14:07:28Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] But Jamie is bucking the trend. [Teen pregnancy rates are the lowest in 30 years.](http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/2006/09/12/USTPstats.pdf) (PDF) [/QUOTE] [Ah, the difference a year makes.](http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/071205/teen-birth-rates-up-for-first-time-in-14-years-us-reports.htm) In 2006, teen pregnancy rates went up for the first time in 14 years. Let’s hear it for abstinence education! Ironic wOOt. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/32 "2007-12-19T14:10:41Z")
According to my quick google search, it seems that the age of consent in Louisiana is 17. > [@](#): > > §80. Felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile > > A. Felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile is committed when: > > (1) A person who is nineteen years of age or older has sexual intercourse, with consent, with a person who is twelve years of age or older but less than seventeen years of age, when the victim is not the spouse of the offender Whoopsies. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/33 "2007-12-19T14:25:05Z")
I have to wonder if maybe she doesn’t really want to be a star with all the crap that comes with it (ala Britney) and this is her way of getting out of it? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/34 "2007-12-19T14:26:03Z")
[QUOTE=Drain Bead] Whoopsies. [/QUOTE] Indeed. Although to prosecute, they’d have to be able to show that at no time during the conception period did she travel to a neighboring state w/a lower consent age. Of course, then, I believe they’d run into trouble w/the federal “Mann Act” (Is that still on the books? you know, the one where traveling w/an unmarried underage female across state lines for immoral purposes is a no-no). and, of course, he’d have to then be a RSO. Makes the whole “gravy train ended” thing to be the minor point in this, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/35 "2007-12-19T15:01:40Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] I should add that the Spears family chose this path on their own when they named their daughter the double name “Jamie Lynn”. There is no way you came name your daughter that and not fully expect a pregnancy ages 14 - 17 (+/- 1 year). Please, there is even a [Jamie Lynn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Lynn_(model)) porn star trying to outdo her with the name. [/QUOTE] It’s worse than that. Jamie and Lynn are _her parents’ names_. No kidding. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/36 "2007-12-19T15:18:12Z")
This is a lot of crap. They railroaded that black student in Georgia for getting a blowjob at a party- but an underage TV actress gets impregnated by a 19 year old and he gets to walk the street? Where are the lawyers on this? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/37 "2007-12-19T15:30:34Z")
[QUOTE=BwanaBob] This is a lot of crap. They railroaded that black student in Georgia for getting a blowjob at a party- but an underage TV actress gets impregnated by a 19 year old and he gets to walk the street? Where are the lawyers on this? [/QUOTE] w/a/d/r to your knee and all, but the news about her pregnancy just broke late yesterday, you really need to give the authorities a moment on this, then bitch about them not acting. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/38 "2007-12-19T15:41:08Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] But Jamie is bucking the trend. [Teen pregnancy rates are the lowest in 30 years.](http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/2006/09/12/USTPstats.pdf) (PDF) [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=WhyNot] [Ah, the difference a year makes.](http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/071205/teen-birth-rates-up-for-first-time-in-14-years-us-reports.htm) In 2006, teen pregnancy rates went up for the first time in 14 years. Let’s hear it for abstinence education! Ironic wOOt. [/QUOTE] … And the “debate” begins. ☹ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/39 "2007-12-19T16:31:35Z")
[QUOTE=JohnT] … And the “debate” begins. ☹ 😉 [/QUOTE] A brief hijack, if I may: When the teen birth rates were falling, and Abstinence and Birth Control supporters were each taking credit for it, a third possibility appeared. According to one study, males aged 15-20 had lower sperm counts than males over 30, which was a particularly depressing prosepect. As far as Miss Spears goes, I heard this morning that she made a statement telling her fans not to emulate her, but to learn from her mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541/40 "2007-12-19T16:47:28Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] As far as Miss Spears goes, I heard this morning that she made a statement telling her fans not to emulate her, but to learn from her mistake. [/QUOTE] How delightful. They should frame that quote and put it on the cover of the child’s photo album. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-spears-kid-on-the-way/430541.md?page=3)