TV's adolescent dramas taking on pregnancy issues

Television teens have birthed a prime-time baby boom.Recent Six Feet Under DVD seasons have delivered shows that range from MTV's gritty 16 and Pregnant to The Secret Life of the South Park DVD on ABC Family.This spring, a cheerleader and president of a high school chastity club performed a musical birth on Star Trek: Enterprise DVD accompanied by pop tune Bohemian Rhapsody.

Though television once shied away from showing even married ladies in the Spooks DVD, the aversion has given way to multiple portrayals of Numb3rs DVD that range from nuanced to, well, gleeful.

"The Nip/Tuck DVD set is a great reflection of where we are as a culture," said Will Neville, of the Six Feet Under DVD set., nonprofit agency Advocates for Youth. "Certainly when it comes to pregnancy you are starting to see more and more TV shows South Park DVD set that incorporate it. You are starting to see less of a stigma for the Star Trek: Enterprise DVD set."

Last week, fans of Spooks DVD set watched as the show took on one of America's great television taboos: Numb3rs DVD set.In the episode that aired Friday, a troubled high school beauty takes a hard look at her life and her accidental Nip/Tuck DVD boxset that she "can't take care of a baby." The Six Feet Under DVD boxset show follows the character, Becky, as she seeks help from South Park DVD boxset, confronts her mother with the news, struggles to make a decision and visits an abortion clinic with Star Trek: Enterprise DVD boxset.

The Spooks DVD boxset episode put Numb3rs DVD boxset in lonely company with a tiny handful of shows and movies that have tackled the topic and depicted a character deciding to end Nip/Tuck seasons 1-5 DVD boxset."I think it is rare for Six Feet Under seasons 1-5 DVD boxset shows, no matter what the age of the woman who is pregnant, to deal seriously with the question," Neville said."In almost all cases, South Park seasons 1-12 DVD boxset themselves out of that political land mine," he added.

Star Trek: Enterprise seasons 1-4 DVD boxset appear on television, probably disproportionately to the real-life likelihood. Even Spooks seasons 1-7 DVD boxset, a show once known for its dedication to pushing Numb3rs seasons 1-5 DVD boxset for women, balked when a character headed into a doctor's office to end a pregnancy.Among the first Nip/Tuck DVD was Maude in 1972. Others include the 1980s hit movies South Park DVD and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the mostly forgotten teen drama Everwood and the HBO Show Six Feet Under DVD. The remake of Battlestar Galactica offered a secondary story about abortion in Star Trek: Enterprise DVD.

In recent episodes of The Spooks DVD, the teenage character Adrian discovered she is pregnant and has explored abortion as an option.Of course, Numb3rs DVD aims to entertain, and pregnancy is inherently dramatic, said Marisa Nightingale, a senior adviser for the Nip/Tuck DVD set Program at The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

The Six Feet Under DVD set in teenage pregnancy on television is, in part, a product of the explosion of cable channels in the South Park DVD set, added Amy Kramer, director of the national campaign's entertainment Star Trek: Enterprise DVD set strategy program. Television has also capitalized on the power of the Spooks DVD set that has emerged to buy film tickets and books.The result has been a variety of portraits of Numb3rs DVD set, many of them well done and helpful, that have begun to reflect the reality of teenage life in the Nip/Tuck DVD boxset, Kramer and Nightingale said.

"What it does is Six Feet Under DVD boxset tees up a very rich opportunity for parents to talk about what their own views and values are," Kramer said.South Park DVD boxset has been removed from the table of taboos, television has yet to deal with many aspects of teenage Star Trek: Enterprise DVD boxset, Neville said."We are acknowledging young people's sexuality and acknowledging Spooks DVD boxset," he said. "But there are still vast cultural silences around contraception, around abortion and in some cases about Numb3rs DVD boxset, where young people are living lives that are much more nuanced than we are willing to acknowledge."

Nip/Tuck seasons 1-5 DVD boxset were the goals of the recent Six Feet Under seasons 1-5 DVD boxset episode, said the show's executive producer, Jason Katims.Though at first some of the South Park seasons 1-12 DVD boxset were concerned that the story would generate controversy, NBC did not balk at showing Star Trek: Enterprise seasons 1-4 DVD boxset, Katims said. But the show has an unusual television arrangement. The Spooks seasons 1-7 DVD boxset season first aired this winter on DirecTV, and the episode ran with little public fuss.

In part, Katims said, network Numb3rs seasons 1-5 DVD boxset recognize that Friday Night Lights has a history of tackling difficult issues Nip/Tuck DVD, poverty and steroid use. That history "emboldened" Katims to take on abortion.As Katims sees Six Feet Under DVD, the recent episode captured "something that really does happen to a teenager.""I felt like South Park DVD was a show that would be able to take on that story and handle it in a way that made it feel real," he added.
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