Do we really need another teen pregnancy baby shower thread? It is always the same posters coming out complaining, verbalizing over and over about how awful teen mothers are. These same posters always write about how teen moms should be shamed into the dark little corner because of their sins, and how those pregnant teens will taint the rest of the adolescent community around them by tricking those sweet teenagers into thinking that pregnancy is the pinnacle of middle or high school achievement.
It is boring and honestly, we have heard your opinion over and over. Where is my "beating a dead horse" icon?
What is done is done. How long should the mom and baby be punished? Should her baby sleep in a drawer instead of a bassinet because the mom (and therefore the baby) doesn't deserve it? Should the mom forgo homework, drop out of school, and work an extra job to buy those baby essentials that might be given to her at that small shower because she just doesn't deserve it? What other things can we come up with to shame the girl? What can she do to show her repentance? What you are basically saying is that teen mothers are undeserving. Shameful. Unredeemable. Deserving of punishment.
How about it, ladies? How long should mom and baby be punished? Months? Years? Generations?
Remember - in your mother's and grandmother's generation, getting pregnant at 15, 16, and 17 was not unusual. In fact, getting married at a young age and having an "early" or "premature" baby was quite common. Did you realize that was probably a shotgun wedding? Several of you posting on this thread probably come from a direct line of at least 1 teen mother if you go back and look at your family tree. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
You want to know my thinking on this one? Statistics from the CDC show that most teenagers today have had sex by the time of high school graduation. The teen girls that get pregnant? They are the unlucky ones. Maybe this girl had sex 1 time and became pregnant. Maybe she has many peers who have sex regularly, and they have not been pregnant at all. What makes them different? This girl happened to be unlucky enough that sperm met egg on the night she decided to engage in intercourse and conceived this child. It only takes 1 time.
If this girl had access to contraceptives - maybe the condom broke. Maybe she missed a birth control pill or was on antibiotics when she conceived. Or maybe she did not have access to this protection at all. Maybe her peers, on the other hand, do have access and use it. Or worse - how would you feel if you knew that there was a rash of rampant abortions in her peer group, and this girl decided to keep her baby and give it a chance at life?
Take your pick. In the end, we know close to nothing about this young woman's circumstances. It is a message board posting. Think about what you have tried to portray as being "morally acceptable". Then think about how much you have contradicted yourself based upon what you have written here. Maybe then you will climb down from that high horse before you beat it to death.
This topic comes up a few times a year and a few of the same posters seem very judgmental over and over again on the topic. I also agree with you that people tend to be judging the young mothers as being promiscuous, when my experience mirrors yours and the girls are not having sex more often than many of their peers, and often they are having it less often. 
