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"A couple weeks ago, I wrote about sex and the single mom. From that piece I think we all gathered that dating, though not impossible, is kind of hard when you&amp;#x27;re a single parent. Imagine what it&amp;#x27;s like to date when you&amp;#x27;re a single TEEN mom living with Mom and Dad... Next week, Teen Mom premieres on MTV. It&amp;#x27;s a follow-up documentary series to 16 and Pregnant, which chronicled the pregnancies of teenage girls and their relationships. Farrah, high school cheerleader turned single mom is raising her daughter, Sophia without the child&amp;#x27;s father and living at home with her mother, Debra. It&amp;#x27;s not that uncommon either: According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, one out of every ten children in the United States is born to a teenage mother. In the clip below, Farrah introduces her daughter and her parents to her date, Cole. Check out the 20-question act from Farrah&amp;#x27;s mom: Phew! Talk about reading this (cute) guy the riot act. For lack of better words, Farrah&amp;#x27;s mom blatantly tells Cole she &amp;quot;doesn&amp;#x27;t go for being ruled by your crouch&amp;quot;--in her defense, this is right after Cole tells her he thinks physical attraction is important in a relationship. OK, I do too, but if someone told my dad that when I was a teenager, he probably would have instructed Uncle Bri to throw the guy out the window. Which brings me back to how hard it is to date as a single parent. I&amp;#x27;m an independent adult. I live alone with JD and don&amp;#x27;t ask my parents for anything other than the routine fawning over their grandchild (but that&amp;#x27;s just normal). For me, if I want to date, I get a babysitter, cross my fingers and go on a date. But when I was a teenager, you better believe my parents were meeting the guy, asking us where we were going, waiting up until I got home, grounding me when I came home late (sometimes I did). That&amp;#x27;s the difference between being a TEEN single mom and, well, an adult one. Let&amp;#x27;s discuss: Aside from the graphic manner in which Farrah&amp;#x27;s mom interrogated Cole, do you think it&amp;#x27;s appropriate for parents of teenagers to meet and get to know the people their kids are dating? Was Farrah&amp;#x27;s mom really that over-the-top, considering she&amp;#x27;s a grandmother--was her rant warranted? Getting back to the topic of saying things publicly for the world to hear, was there a better way for Farrah&amp;#x27;s mom to phrase &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t want another Sophia&amp;quot;? Do you think this documentary is a good idea? Would you let your teen be in a reality show? *** What is your method of birth control? Find the right birth control for you. Spilling your sex life to your parents: Do or Don&amp;#x27;t? *** More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering for or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;#x27;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow us on Twitter."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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