Jamie Lynn Spears is Pregnant, Britney Spears is a Mess, and I'm Wondering: Where Are the Parents?

With the latest shocking announcement from the Spears camp, Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant, I'm beginning to wonder what kind of parenting they are getting. I could at least have slight confidence in Lynne Spears's ability to parent if Britney Spears were the only one getting negative publicity, but now that we know that Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant, I am doubting that it is pure coincidence that both of the Spears girls are gaining bad publicity.

When Britney Spears first started to break free from her cute pop princess persona I was shocked and disappointed. I was a couple years too old to be an admirer of the pop princess, I instead found myself wondering what kind of example she was setting for the millions of young girls who admired her. I can still vividly remember that VMA performance in which she donned a rhinestone encrusted, flesh toned body suit while shaking what her momma, or a plastic surgeon, gave her.

Then, in recent years, while watching her spiral out of control, first with her quickie marriage to K-Fed, and then with her more recent choice to shave her head, I began to feel sorry for her. I felt like maybe her growing up in the public eye had made her lose touch with reality. In a way, I wanted to invite Britney Spears to live a normal life with me and my girlfriends in hopes that maybe she would learn what it would be like to live comfortably, not extravagantly, and feel true happiness. I felt bad that she had gone from topping the charts and being admired by millions to being the laughing stock of Hollywood. When news broke that she wasn't speaking to her mother I felt for her mom and Briney, knowing from personal experience that it is sometimes easy to take parents for granted, and I was just hoping that she would not one day regret this decision, since none of us know how much time we will really have with our parents.