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They did have an African American girl on the last season of 16 and Pregnant, but she was the adopted daughter of middle-class white parents. I believe the rest were white.
I watched the last episode of Teen Mom last night (and realized I missed the one before that) and I did feel really bad for Farrah after she lost all her money on the CL scam. Especially when she was on the phone with the bank and her baby fell off the bed and everything seemed like it was going to shit. But I still can't stand her.
(Side note - there are plenty of adults in her life, behind the cameras. If I was one of them I would have a really hard time not taking her aside and telling her she was making a huge mistake. Or putting her baby on the floor after she left it alone on the high bed it eventually fell off of!)
I was so relieved when Tyler decided he didn't want the phone records. All that behavior - requiring her to tell him about her phone calls, demanding phone records, telling her she disgusts him, etc - seemed like warning signs of a future abuser to me. She was wrong to hide the phone calls from him (and probably to call her ex, though I don't know what they were talking about), but he didn't handle it well. It's obvious they really love each other and I was really glad his mom talked some sense into him regarding how to deal with issues in a relationship. I just feel iffy about their future. They were so good together when they were dealing with the adoption, but lately when things get bad he treats her poorly and she just takes it because she loves him. Not a good dynamic, IMO.
I really liked the discussion Maci had with her new boyfriend about guidelines for their relationship with Bentley in the picture. It's obvious that Bentley comes first and any boyfriend needs to respect that, and she was up-front about that. I think that a lot of girls 16 and Pregnant/Teen Mom wouldn't be willing to risk missing out on having a boyfriend by telling them that. Go Maci!
This used to be a guilty pleasure I'd watch on occasion when I was hanging out with my Big & Little(s) but I feel myself getting sucked in. Erp.
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