Outside Reading for 7/16

I have a series on ABC Family that I watch every Monday night. It's called "The Secret Life of an American Teenager." It's about a 15 year old girl named Amy who gets pregnant and she is trying to decide if she wants to keep the baby or put it up for adoption. Well through the show she decides that she wants to keep it and her friends help her find a job and a way to keep him. She eventually has the baby and names it John. Amy and the baby's father, Ricky, aren't together but he is more than happy to help out. He was physically and sexually abused when he was younger and knows he is nothing like his father because he wants to be there for John. Well during this new season, Amy's friend Grace's dad dies in a plane crash. Grace and her family are christians and her father didn't believe in sex until after marriage. Before her dad left for the airport she told him that her and her boyfriend Jack were going to have sex. She wanted to do this because she figured that he would stop having sex with other girls. Since her dad died she thinks its her fault that he died because she disobeyed him and now he is dead. Besides all of that, Amy's boyfriend Ben got offered a job in Balona for the summer. He wants to take Amy with him but then again he doesn't. When Amy finds out that he is going she wants someone to stay home and watch John so she can go. She is finding out parenting at a very young age. I feel I relate to this because right when I turned 17 I was pregnant. Parenting is very difficult but it's also rewarding. I wouldn't change anything about my life, but there are times when I wish I had more freedom. It's very sad to see so many girls at such a young age getting pregnant. They are throwing their life away to soon and not having any time to grow up. If I could change anything about my past, I wish I would have waited a little bit longer, but Mylee is a part of me now and it would just seem so different if I didn't have her.