Why do they treat teenage pregnancies shocking when it's really common?
I mean Juno and her parents treat it as really really bad, which it is, but it's not that unusual. She is suppose to be 16, I think, but when I was in school three girls got pregnant that I knew who were 13, and one got pregnant at 11.
So to be pregnant at 16 is really nothing and I bet most parents wouldn't even be surprised if that happened to their daughter. Especially when so many kids are sexually active, so why is it that this movie treats it like it's an abomination?
I think the movie may have been more effective, if they made Juno 13 years old, because then it's less common, more shocking and more of an abomination to the parents and other characters.
What do you think?