Growing Up Fast Analysis

Growing Up Fast. 2003. Growing Up Fast. Films Media Group, 2004. Web. 21 Nov. 2016.

In the video segment “Growing up fast “director and producer Joanna Lipper made a documentary interviewing teen girls and teen moms on their thoughts, struggles and relationships. Thought the segments the girls touch on the subject of teen pregnancy and teen parenting, it is briefly discussed how the United States has the highest pregnancy rate in the whole world, yearly at least forty thousand teen mothers drop out of high school, and how once pregnant, teen moms have a higher risk of having a second child before they even turn twenty years old. A constant battle teen moms come to face is the judgement. “What you don’t know about me is I am a good teenage mom with a lot of responsibility”, “What you don’t know about me is that what I look like on the outside is not what I look like on the inside.” “What you don’t know is that I still go to school, at the

Grounded for Life: Teenage Pregnancy. Films Media Group, 1988. Web. 21 Nov. 2016. In another segment I watched called “Grounded for life” it also briefly discusses statistics. Some being on how everyone millions teens become pregnant and how one in seven pregnancies in the United States involve a teen. While watching this documentary the main point audience is supposed to receive is why teens get pregnancy and the social problems they face.

Much like the documentary “Growing up fast” the teens who were interviewed also discussed how they felt an extreme amount of pressure to succeed in school while also being a parent. One young women explains how “the pressure of trying to go to school and raise a child the way a child should be raised” can be tiring and very extreme. At one point while be interviewing one girl states how she thought finials was the hardest time of the year for a teen mother. She explains that she had no time to do any work or studying and felt “it was hard to keep