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MTV Teen Mom Arrested & Jailed for On-Air Assault and Neglect

Amber Portwood, a 20-year-old teen mom MTV star surrendered to police Monday afternoon after being charged with three felonies: two counts of domestic battery and one count of neglect of a dependent. In addition, the “Teen Mom” star faces one misdemeanor count of domestic battery — all stemming from footage aired on MTV which showed her repeatedly punching and hitting then-fiance Gary Shirley, the father of her toddler, Leah.

The reality television star is now behind bars in Indiana with bail set at $5,000.

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  • QuietRiot
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 3:56am

    Take her KID and jail this tramp …..

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  • NeoMouser
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 3:54am

    i stopped watching this channel when they stopped doing music videos

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  • bkfirvine
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 3:29am

    Sugar and spice and everything nice.

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  • mcccmar
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 3:18am

    the issue is obvious here – while I respect this young lady for choosing life sheis clearly not ready to parent – if she has any love for that child at all she will contact a REPUTABLE adoption agency and give her little girl an opportunity for a life with parents who not only LOVE her but can provide her with
    stability. I think this show is a double edged swords – it shows the issues with unprepared parenting – but it also encourages young women like amber because they are PAYING her to act like that

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  • Jeremie Step
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:49am

    The boyfriend should be commended for his restraint, also for showing the world how bad that woman really is. I don’t watch MTV, let alone shows about teen mothers, I just think that teen motherhood should not be glorified with celebrity and exposure. This may be culturally incorrect, but the last thing I wanted as a teen was a kid, I want to have kids one day but that will be when I have the ability to provide the time, finances, and energy to raising the children properly. Too many teens don’t think of the consequences of sex until it knocks em in the gut.

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  • Lion420
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:29am

    SWEEEEET! This is what MTV puts in front of our children….hopefully this will show them there are consequences to being a total lowlife.

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  • BeckFan1964
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:25am

    The boyfriend deserves a gold star.
    The girl deserves to have her ass kicked.
    And the threatened him with her comment that he needs to watch his back.
    Take the baby from her and give it to the boyfriend. He shows the self control necessary to raise a child.

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    • crazydaisy
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:03pm

      One day when I couldn’t find anything else to watch I watched a marathon of this show on MTV. Gary may be a bit of a lazy slob, but it was obvious he loves his little girl. Whenever Leah was with mommy she was fussy and cranky, but as soon as daddy came around she was all smiles and happy. He’s a good daddy and deserves custody of his little girl. He has a good heart, and I don‘t know why he put up with Amber’s crap.

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  • Ray2447
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:19am

    Domestic violence law has some basis in fact, but it has also been another racket that the left largely uses to break up families and batter innocent fathers and men. The teen mom’s hubby is lucky the cameras were rolling or at some point in his relationship, he’d have been the one charged with d.v. A woman word is all that’s needed. See “Los Misandry” at Youtbue . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAmOxvudpF8

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  • KEA
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:36am

    Time to WAKE UP everyone. Have you read the Health Care BIll?

    Here its, make sure you ahve a bucket to Puke in !

    PART II—SUPPORT FOR PREGNANT AND
    PARENTING TEENS AND WOMEN
    SEC. 10211. DEFINITIONS.
    In this part:
    (1) ACCOMPANIMENT.—The term ‘‘accompaniment’’ means assisting, representing, and
    accompanying a woman in seeking judicial relief for child support, child custody, restraining orders, and
    restitution for harm to persons and property, and in filing criminal charges, and may include the payment
    of court costs and reasonable attorney and witness fees associated therewith.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:44am

      what about the guys who get their buts kicked by a pregnant women.
      i know what it says and you are right, and this is B S
      i have a 5 gallon bucket.and plenty more where that came from.

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    • KEA
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:58am

      Rest assured the left has thought this out and I PRAY everyday that the facts in front of me are wrong but I KNOW this is in the Health Care bill for a reason and its not in Mans best interest.

      I was PISSED when I read the WHOLE bill but this part realy stuck in my throat because I was a single parent who rased his child alone for many years with no support from ANYONE. I cant believe we now madate legal support for teens and pregnant woman like this.

      Its out of control.

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    • Ray2447
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:39am

      Yea, and what about the illegal immigrant women who claim they’re victims of domestic violence and get asylum and citizenship under the Violence Against Women (not men) Act. If you build it they will come and come and come…

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  • the_ancient
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:31am

    I have a real problem with the trend of late that allows using YouTube/“Reality TV” clips as the basis and often sole probable cause for the filing for criminal charges, These are often scripted and edited to make the acts seem more dramatic or to change the story or narrative, so no crime may have actually been convicted but it seems so, and may seem so to a jury as well.

    Further I have another problem with the “State” being able to file battery and assult charges when there is no complaining witness.

    If there is a complainant, which does not seem to be the case here, the footage can be used to SUPPORT charges stemming from the complaint filed by a victim, but for the state to just assert itself when there is no complaining victim is where the problem lies

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:52am

      I can’t agree completely……. What about a victim that is too scared to complain? How many times have you heard about charges being dropped and/or the acused gets off because no one would testify? Probably wouldn’t be an issue in this case but we have no way of knowing that. I dislike “big brother” as much as anybody but the weakest among us need protection too. Since the parents seem to be MIA who would you suggest stand up for the baby and even the ex-boyfriend?

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:12pm

      That is what witness protection either short or long term is for.

      The road to Tyranny is paved with “good intentions”.

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  • CaptainSpaulding
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:18am

    I was wondering when they were going to drag this woman in.

    She is constantly beating her boyfriend.

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:15am

    Calling Gloria Allred, come and make a victim out of this white trash monstrosity. She’ll get off scott free. Come on, no one’s going to prosecute a teen girl.

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  • salvawhoray
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:13am

    I love the story of it being a 20 year old “TEEN AGER”.

    ?????Only in this Obama world???????????

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  • DMD
    Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:06am

    Why did he even go in her trailer?
    She deserves to get KO’ed.
    Dude showed some cool I will give him that.

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    • Ray2447
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:33am

      Women’s domestic violence against men is grossly under reported, while male victims are still routinely being ignored by the taxpayer funded domestic violence industry. Credible research overwhelmingly shows that the ratio of domestic violence is at least 50/50 between women & men. Go to Fiebert Bibliography. According to one study by researchers who work at the CDC, in 70 percent of domestic violence incidents, where the d.v. is not mutual, it’s women who initiate the d. v. Go to Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting. Click on the link under the red & blue pie chart. D.v. law follows a gender feminist agenda over facts & does great harm to many innocent men & also many violent women. Go to Youtube, “Los Misandry.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAmOxvudpF8

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  • Mousey
    Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:56pm

    there is nothing funny about this
    there is no politics here
    this is heartbreaking
    to see this young woman in a state like this
    this is a sad thing and the BLAZE should be ashamed to put it up for entertainment

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:14am

      you are right,
      not funny.
      no politics.
      this heartbreaking, for the baby to she her mother act like this.and she is responsible for the state which she is in. baby, attention,and abuse, so i agree,this sad.
      what about m t v ,for filming this stupid show and what about her parents for allowing her to be on this show, and again what about her. there is a lot of blame, but no one wants to accept it . one more thing what about her temper?? who is to blame???

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:19am

      I’m certainly not laughing. There is more to life than politics. This too is part of what some of us have come to. “Restoring Honor” means more (to me at least) than just politics. If we don‘t have honor in our personal lives it sure as hell won’t happen in public life!

      MTV is the group that should be ashamed; not the Blaze. To have real, meaningful change in our great nation we must examine all aspects of the country – not just the bozos in D.C. & state capitols.

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    • jcannon98188
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:57am

      When they put it up as entertainment they didn’t mean it was entertaining, they meant it was entertainment news.

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    • Ray2447
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:36am

      In reality, the taxpayer funded domestic violence industry is riddled with politics and I praise “The Blaze” for showing the world what’s going on.

      Domestic violence will never end as long as the whole truth about it is misrepresented to comply with feminist ideology. V.P. Biden recently called violence against women, “the very worst abuse.” The very worst abuse is valuing one life less than another for having been born the wrong gender. Under domestic violence law, the wrong gender is men. Shelter and services are virtually non-existent for male victims of domestic violence. Options out of a bad relationship, that women have, are often not available to men. Men wind up gender profiled and falsely accused by the taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry, because of gender feminist ideology controlling the d.v. industry. Men are often battered by domestic violence, and then battered again by the taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry as shown in “Los Misandry” at Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAmOxvudpF8

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  • PackerFan
    Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:46pm

    wow, stupid show. does MTV still show music and music videos anymore? or do they show crap like this all day?

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:54pm

      They stopped showing music in 1986.

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  • C. Schwehr
    Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:38pm

    Remove the child from her custody and have the girl sterilized!

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:46pm

      agreed!!!!!!!! wow this girl should never see that baby again with a temper like that. some one has to protect this baby.

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    • Ray2447
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:31am

      Deaths of little children, killed by their mothers is egregious, yet the taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry disingenuously tries to make us believe that women don’t abuse men too. According to the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services and DOJ statistics, more kids are killed by neglect and abuse in a year (1,760 in 2007), than all the female intimate partner homicides in a year. Mothers are the single largest group of kid killers, according to HHS, and they have a rate twice that of fathers. Nowhere near the money is spent to protect kids from kid killing mothers as is spent by the domestic violence industry to protect women. The taxpayer funded d.v. industry is a bastion of misandrist vilification, falsely accusing men of being the overwhelming cause of d.v., and empowering violent women to commit further domestic violence. The corruption of the taxpayer funded, domestic violence industry is characterized in “Los Misandry” at Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAmOxvudpF8

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:36pm

    you know some progressive lawyer will say she is just misunderstood,and she is just acting out because she is so stressed from being a young mother and we are to blame. what is sad, is she had to learn this kind of behavior from someone she is close too. her baby daddy better be glad the cameras were rolling,or she might have blamed him for abuse.
    another feel sorry for me teen mom. i don’t feel sorry for her.

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    • Ray2447
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:28am

      According to liberal feminists who reside in (and largely own) the Democrat party, “The evil Patriarchy made her do it!” According to them, she‘s the victim and needs to take a stand and assert herself against men’s historical and ongoing oppression(s). I attended a wormen’s studies lecture at UCLA, and during the lecture women would stand up and scream and shout – just like they were taught to do by their Professors in their Women’s Studies classes. Of course, after they graduate the only jobs they can get are in the taxpayer funded, or subsidized, women’s industries: domestic violence, sexual harassment, women’s law centers, offices of women’s health, etc.

      Beck should do a study on how much is spent on these programs compared to men and what the actual needs are. TALK ABOUT MONUMENTAL GOVERNMENT WASTE and unequal treatment under law!

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  • nellyp
    Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:35pm

    Wow, what a horrible human being.

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  • Ron Burgundy
    Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:24pm

    Classy, I wonder how much welfare she gets a year? The problem with this country is the lack of family values!

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    • Ray2447
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:29am

      “The problem with this country is the lack of family values!”

      Also known as “gender feminist values.”

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    • robertgraham
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:51pm

      ”’Take her KID and jail this tramp …..”’

      Why can’t the father raise the child??

      Are you saying, like most true liberals in this country, ANGER out of control is something that cannot be harnessed? I’ll let you speak to a few men who once ran uncontrolled onto a battlefield and are around to tell us about it!

      The child has not been harmed to this point. I would indeed allow the father to take care of his child and I would give the girl no alternative except for anger management and possible long term therapy. Far too many times, father’s are lost by the absolutely unobjectionable liberal family courts. That is how it is in Pittsburgh at least. As a father of six, and I have raised them all, I have teh experience to talk and the absolute proof of a father’s love making everything alright.

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  • Ron Burgundy
    Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:23pm

    Add your comments

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  • Zaphod
    Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:10pm

    Kudos to that Gary guy for demonstrating such INCREDIBLE restraint.

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    • Vie_En_Ras
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:09am

      Exactly what I was thinking.

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    • jimmythebullet
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 4:52am

      yeah,now he‘s eligible for one of obama’s “medals for restraint”.

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    • 1monkey1
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:38am

      I was in an abusive marriage. It is no wonder he showed restraint. The one time I called 911 to report my ex-wife nobody showed up. The next day I asked an officer about it and he said it was a good thing because in Florida I would have been the one taken to jail.

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 10:02am

      You got that right zap. I was in an abusive relationship and was asaulted by my girlfriend, I was the one arrested. When it finaly went to court, she admitted to the whole thing, but at that time it was to late for her to be arrested, not to mention the cost of getting the records erased so they don’t show up on back ground checks. The laws for domestic violence are very unfair. They give the woman in the relationship far more rights and far more leway in getting away with abuse. And 9 times out of 10, the guy gets arrested even when all he does is stand there and take it.

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    • MrObvious
      Posted on December 29, 2010 at 7:06am

      I know a man in FL, who reported being assaulted by their ex; and, the ex did in fact get arrested, not the guy. He even managed to get a temporary restraining order against her.

      It can be done; but, needs to be done the right way.

      The right way to do it, is probably NOT to call 9-1-1, unless it really is an emergency.

      You remove yourself and children from the situation; then, get help from a lawyer, and file a formal complaint.

      Witnesses and/or video can help greatly.

      Going off half cocked is never a good idea anyway.

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  • CYBERFOX
    Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:06pm

    Viacom, Ruining People’s Lives since we broke off with CBS

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  • CYBERFOX
    Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:06pm

    Viacom, Ruining People’s Lives sice we broke off with CBS

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  • AIDANMAN
    Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:05pm

    surprised anyone saw the show…anyone

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    • oldfart
      Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:17pm

      I’m with you! Does ANYBODY really watch these CRAPPY SHOWS? ANYBODY?

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    • CatB
      Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:34pm

      Not me .. when that is the only thing on tv .. I will not need one. Glad to see that this “person” is getting some reality now! Stupid is as stupid does …. Forrest’s mom

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:46pm

      reality TV is like herpes
      its never ever going to go away

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    • TruthTalker
      Posted on December 27, 2010 at 11:48pm

      Jerry! Jerry! The culture of the stupid democrat.

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:40am

      Reality TV is the last alternative due to a void of mental creative talent in Hollywood. Old Hollywood is just about dead and gone. All that is left is the new generation of degenerates who are addicted to plastic surgery. Nothing of substance remaining in them there hills.

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    • FlatFoot
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 3:58am

      MTV?

      I thought they went irrelevant, bankrupt, and then off the air something like 20 years ago or so.

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    • Creestof
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 5:56am

      Reality TV, infomercials, sleeze and crap shows from before I was born was all I ever saw on Time-Warner cable…so I canceled it. The lady on the phone said, well you can pay $20.00 more and get more channels if you don’t like what you are seeing now.” I told her, ma’am…I’m already paying $67.00 a month for 103 stations…why should I pay more for more stations?

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 7:20am

      I remember the good old days, when MTV actually showed music videos and didn’t pander to the lowest rung of human mentality. Our younger generation is being completely ruined by the scum that peddles this sort of trash.

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    • Kurty C Wipe
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:32am

      Between the both of them, I estimate about 3k a month will be handed to them by the good ole state government. You know the plan, stamps, daycare, housing,ect….Don’t forget therapy for the kid in 12 years that it will need for years to come because its mother was on national tv committing a crime. Kids having Kids…… unsubstainable.

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    • taskmaster78
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:37am

      Thankfully she’s not my child, I’d have her ass behind the wood shed. She calling her boyfriend “trash”? isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black? She needs a serious attitude adjustment. You think it’s the camera causing this little b&%*h to over act her part?

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    • Rowgue
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:18pm

      It’s not really reality TV, but it’s still garbage. MTV has been producing these trash programs for decades now. Reinforcing every bad behavior a kid can engage in by making shows dedicated to glorifying each one of them.

      I agree with the others though. I didn’t really think anybody watched MTV anymore. It’s really just a collection of tasteless and poorly produced shows that are an instruction manual for how to be a massive tool.

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    • stephenb.net
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 12:20pm

      Ex Boyfriend? You mean she’s single! Woo Hoo, what a catch!

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    • jbl8199
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:25pm

      I used to like MTV before they started with all this reality crap. If I want to see reality I’ll go outside.

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    • robertgraham
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 2:42pm

      Well, as a 49 year old father of six from 19 to31 and as a conservative American I do indeed watch this show. I find this particular show to be extremely hard hitting like a slap in the face. I am quite surprised more conservative Americans like myself do not find ‘Teen Mom’ a very fundamental portrayal of the alternative to abortion. These kids are indeed main stream Americans and I absolute applaud the producers of this show for laying it all out there as far the difficulties of having children unprepared in our world. It reminds me of me! It reminds me of exactly how our struggles do indeed make us what we are. I am far, far from the perfect parent. Some times this show rings so very true to many common experiences we may all have.

      I seriously challenge anyone to check out this show.. I know this example of Amber is certainly not right in her anger. In fact, she should be charged accordingly. I hope she is given help.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on December 28, 2010 at 8:34pm

      Did this woman not hear about what happened to Jennifer Petkov when she ran her mouth off with pride in front of a TV crew about a young neighbor who is dying of a terminal illness?

      The following link gives a good summary of the whole mess Ms. Petkov ended up in, including the loss of her own children to her ex-husband, her husband’s subsequent job loss and now an assault charge. The links will take you to the various videos that are associated with the case.

      http://law.rightpundits.com/?p=2395

      It just gets better and better, doesn’t it, Jennifer?

      Oh yeah, and Amber? You might want to think long and hard about how you act with your kids again. By the way, thanks for becoming a poster child for abused men, too. Far too often it’s assumed that the men are always the violent ones in the domestic abuse situations.

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