History Series / SixteenAndPregnant

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''16 and Pregnant'' is an {{MTV}} reality series produced by Morgan Freeman, (No, not THAT MorganFreeman) and was first broadcast on June 11, 2009. It follows the stories of teenage girls dealing with the hardships of teenage pregnancy. Each episode features a different teenage girl; the episode typically begins when she is four to eight months into her pregnancy, and typically ends when the baby is a few months old. The series is produced in a documentary format, with commercial breaks preceded by an animation of an elaborate cartoon depiction on notebook paper of each episode's highlights.

* DaddyDNATest: One recent episode features the father's family giving his wife an at-home DNA kit and demanding that she take it to prove that the baby is his. [[spoiler: She refused and stormed out of the house.]]

** Not just in the show. From her breast augmentation to making sex-tape and entering rehab, this girl is finding her in worse and worse trouble in real life...

** Speaking of Farrah, she ended up getting a boob job so she could continue modeling.
*** The boob job doesn't entirely count as this trope. Being able to continue making money as a model isn't the worst thing to do. Of course she almost certainly is not doing it primarily for the baby, but extra spare cash, at least some of which will help that baby, is not the worst thing to "invest" in.

* TooDumbToLive: One girl on the show was talking about how she got pregnant. She didn't know too much about birth control (a quick google search could have cleared that up) and suggested that her boyfriend use condoms. He confessed that the reason why he didn't was because it was too awkward to buy them.
** The original reason he gave for not using them, before confessing to being too embarrassed to buy them, was that condoms didn't feel good for him. Long story short, [[CaptainObvious if you don't know enough about birth control to find an alternative to condoms because your boyfriend has made it clear that he isn't going to use them, then you should not be having sex.]]
** One season 4 girl said she didn't use birth control because she didn't want to get fat. [[http://cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com/11122012125775.jpg Yeah]].
** One girl famously said "You can't really prevent pregnancy." Her friends were quick to set her straight on that, though.

* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: A little bit, in that there have been claims that girls are getting pregnant to get on the show.

* Flirty Stepsiblings: Catelynn and Tyler, although they were dating before their parents were.

* FromBadToWorse: Farrah. First, the father dies in a car crash. She's forced to live with her family, which is...less than ideal. ''Then'', we learn her mother is physically abusive. If that wasn't enough, the father's family first tries to prove that he isn't the father...and then when the paternity test says he is, immediately sues her for not giving them enough time with the baby. The cherry on top? She wanted an abortion, and it's implied her mother used emotional abuse to make her have the child. How much of this is truth and how much is ManipulativeEditing is up to the viewer.

* NotBloodSiblings: After Catelynn and Tyler started dating, his dad started dating her mom. Becoming stepsiblings didn't stop Catelynn and Tyler from dating and getting engaged for awhile, though.

** Jenelle OWNS this trope.

* DaddyDNATest: one recent episode features the father's family giving his wife an at-home DNA kit and demanding that she take it to prove that the baby is his. [[spoiler: She refused and stormed out of the house.]]

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Averted hard; the girls are often shown getting a crash course for how being pregnant will ruin their lives: chaining them to a {{Jerkass}}, make it extremely difficult to finish school (let alone attend college), and keep you in debt and shatter any dreams you might have for the future.

** One girl got in a fight with her baby-daddy while they were out driving. He pushed her out of the car and drove off with the twins.

** Kaylin in a way. She was allowed to stay with Joe as long as she didn't date. However she ended up dating someone else and she went back to living with her mother for awhile after telling Joe.

** One season 4 girl said she didn't use birth control because she didn't want to get fat. Yeah.

** Another girl found out her (unemployed) baby-daddy wasn't using the internet to look for a job anymore, but was instead chatting with another girl on Myspace. Later, when she confronted him about it, she ended up hitting him.

*** She was filmed getting in a fight with another girl. Jenelle and the girls who were encouraging the fight ended up getting arrested for it. You can find the fight video on YouTube.

** Completely averted in a season 4 episode featuring a girl who's older sister became pregnant around the same time as her and decided to abort the pregnancy. The girls go back and forth about who made the "right" decision, with the new mom eventually telling her sister that even though she loved her baby, if she could go back, she would have ended her pregnancy.

** Jenelle too. We rarely see her with the kid at all and she was recently picked up on marijuana posession. It's no wonder why her mother is trying to take custody of the baby!

** Completely averted in a season 4 episode featuring a girl who's older sister became pregnant around the same time as her and decided the to abort the pregnancy. The girls go back and forth about who made the "right" decision, with the new mom eventually telling her sister that even though she loved her baby, if she could go back, she would have ended her pregnancy.

** Averted in a season 4 episode featuring a girl who's older sister became pregnant around the same time as her and decided the to abort the pregnancy. The girls go back and forth about who made the "right" decision, with the new mom eventually telling her sister that even though she loved her baby, if she could go back, she would have ended her pregnancy.

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Averted hard; the girls are often shown getting a crash course for how being pregnant will ruin their lives: chaining them to a {{Jerkass}}, who they will most likely end up being forced to wed in a ShotgunWedding, make it extremely difficult to finish school (let alone attend college), and keep you in debt and shatter any dreams you might have for the future.

** Sadly though, MTV still [[BrokenAesop hypes the show on the basis of this trope]]. Worse, a lot of episodes try to do their best to pimp this take on teen pregnancy via ManipulativeEditing.

** Jenelle. Just Jenelle.

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* TruffautWasRight: A little bit, in that there have been claims that girls are getting pregnant to get on the show.

** Another girl found out her (unemployed) baby-daddy wasn't using the internet to look for a job anymore, but was instead chatting with another girl (an ex, I think) on Myspace. Later, when she confronted him about it, she ended up hitting him.

* DaddyDNATest: one recent episode features the father's family giving his wife an at-home DNA kit and demanding that she take it to prove that the baby is his. [[spoiler: she refused and stormed out of the house.]]