I find these posters to be gut-wrenchingly horrible. They are designed to scare teenagers into taking precautions against pregnancy by demonizing teenagers who get (someone) pregnant. The way in which teens are portrayed in these images suggests that the organization, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, doesn't care about teenagers, only in controlling their behavior.
Each poster is followed by its text.
"I had sex so my boyfriend wouldn't REJECT me. Now, I have a baby. And no boyfriends."
"Now that I'm home with a baby, NOBODY calls me anymore."
"All it took was one PRICK to get my girlfriend pregnant. At least that's what her friends say."
"Condoms are CHEAP. If we'd used one, I wouldn't have to tell my parents I'm pregnant."
I want to be out with my friends. Instead, I'm changing DIRTY diapers at home."
7 comments:
January 20, 2008 at 8:55 PM
These are horrible. The message appears to be teen pregnancy = defilement. I HATE these posters.
January 22, 2008 at 10:08 AM
I work for a state teen pregnancy prevention organization, and these posters were very controversial within the community when they were released; many people hated them.
A local Planned Parenthood had kids create their own positive versions (ex: I'm a teen mom who's PROUD of her child) that are quite wonderful, but I wasn't able to find them online.
January 22, 2008 at 12:40 PM
I think that any negative attitude towards pregnancy is ethically wrong. Pregnancy and sex should not be demonized at any age and I am also sick of the judgemental nature society has on pregnant women. The only acceptible pregnant woman seems to be married and between the ages of 22 and 35. Older pregnant women also fall under alot of scrutiny, but for different reasons.
These posters seem very 1950s in mentality and not modern or progressive in teen pregnancy prevention.
February 5, 2008 at 5:15 AM
These posters make me feel sick.
March 21, 2008 at 10:06 PM
Disgusting!
April 8, 2008 at 12:48 PM
What I see wrong with these posters is that the are not clear and that they do seem vilify pregnancy. But who has room to print (and who wants to read) a paragraph with statistics concerning unwanted pregnancy? That's the real issue here isn't it? These posters goal is to shame and by the reaction they have received it seems they have succeeded. I don't support the image of these posters and I don't think that they would have an effect on their target audience. I don't think unwanted pregnancy should be portrayed as dirty or whorish, but foolish, and the message should be Think Before You Dink.
April 8, 2008 at 12:55 PM
i guess the sentences on the posters give an important message, that teen pregnancy is a serious thing and should not be taken lightly, but putting the words in front of the teens is TERRIBLE; the ads are anti-pregnant-teen, not anti-pregnancy, and that's just wrong
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