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TechnoratiBut Aldridge has indicated plans to settle down with Spears. The Rev. Odus Jackson, Aldridge's uncle, told the New York Post that the young couple wants get married. The two reportedly met at church.
"Jamie Lynn and Casey want to get married. I know Casey does, and he says she does, too," said Jackson.
Aldridge’s grandfather expressed disappointment in his grandson but hopes the two will get married.
"He should make an honest woman of her and make it all above board by getting married,” Aldridge’s 71-year-old granddad told The Sun. "Casey was raised in the church. This breaks my heart."
The news comes amid a national debate over teaching abstinence in schools. A December report revealed teen birthrates rose 3 percent last year following a 14-year decline.
But the National Abstinence Education Association said the Center for Disease Control report carried a political agenda to undermine abstinence education programs.
Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, director of Concerned Women for America’s Beverly LaHaye Institute, was quick to point out that the birth rate for 15-17-year-olds declined in 2005 and that the overall birthrate for 10-14-year-olds declined in 2006. She also noted that these are the age groups targeted by abstinence education programs.
A few days before news of Spears’ pregnancy surfaced, the Bush administration had renewed funding for abstinence-only education.
Jessica Sheets of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy felt Spears’ “good-girl image” would help the message about teen pregnancy resonate among young people.
"It's interesting to note that Jamie Lynn has a good-girl image," said Sheets, according to The Washington Post. "It's a message that girls should be getting."
"I definitely don't think [premarital sex is] something you should do; it's better to wait," Spears told OK! "But I can't be judgmental because it's a position I put myself in."
The Campaign has reported that one in seven girls has sex before she is 15 and 60 percent of teen girls who have sex say later they wish they'd waited.
Christian Post reporter Nathan Black contributed to this report.
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