Teen Mom phenom

I've been watching on TV the Teen Mom series.  It set me wondering about the advantages to the phenom.

The obvious advantage is the support system the teenage mother can have.  Especially if the mom's mother is willing to help raise the baby, the teenager pregnant girl can benefit from not only her mother's assistance but her experience in raising kids by watching and emulating how her mother acts with the newborn.

There's also the biological plus to having children earlier than later.  I would imagine there's less probability of her being pregnant with medical complications.

If the father is committed to attending the baby, even helping with changing diapers, the circumstance of a girl's pregancy and childbirth could be rewarding and satisfying for both new teenager parents.

Now, with many high schools opening up child-care departments within the school grounds, the mother can also act as a teenager, forgoing being a mature adult till later.  She could even go around with her girlfriends to attend various school and social functions, while her baby is being cared for by those intimate with her situation and wanting to help.

It might be more practical for her to think of attending a local community college, instead of a far off university or four-year college at least while the baby is so young, but with more and more classes at universities being offered online, she should think of enrolling in a four-year college as soon as she completes her associate degree at the community college, if she so desires.

Meantime, she and her baby would have a wonderful binding relationship of growing up together into the world beyond familial bounds.