Moving in and moving on was the theme of the evening on this week's episode of Teen Mom. Jenelle was moving out of her mother's house (about time!), Chelsea just moved into her new place, and Leah is struggling both with Ali's continued issues and her own desire to move.
Jenelle is just a complete mess. Yes, she has moved out of her mom's house, but her son is still with her mom and she "may" see him once a week. Isn't this show called Teen MOM? How is she a mom when she isn't even acting like one? This is especially true when you compare her to the other moms.
Chelsea and Kailyn are working their tails off to make money on their own, raise their children, and try to be good moms. Leah is working full time, taking care of TWINS, and dealing the repercussions of her daughter's possible illness. Meanwhile Jenelle can't go a day without marijuana and dwells primarily on her boy troubles. Just tell me again why we are calling her a "mom"?
"Moms" take care of their kids. They do the responsible thing and they fight for their children even when they're scared of the repercussions. This has been exemplified most recently by Kailyn. The biggest news of the night was Kailyn's decision to file for child support from Jo, which scared her because Jo has been very clear that he doesn't want to pay.
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It's hard to imagine how he possibly justifies NOT paying support for his child, but he seems to expect us to feel sorry for him. The fact is, Jo IS one of the better fathers on this show (though compared to Adam, Jeffrey Dahmer looks like dad material). He is involved with his son, sees him regularly, and clearly loves him (or at least his family does), but the child support isn't about any of that. It's about Isaac and Isaac needs it.
The girls have all faced the fact that their lives changed dramatically and for the more difficult when they had children, but the boys -- in many cases -- didn't. Jo claims he needs the $400+ to "work on his music," but the fact is, his "music" is taking a back seat now, just like all these girls put THEIR dreams in the back seat. It's the choice you make when you have a kid.
So yes. Jo owes money. It's for his child, not for Kailyn, and he is a cad for giving her a hard time about it. Child support is, in fact, a kind of parenting. For the non-custodial parent, it's a way to be involved and responsible, but anyone who knows anything about parenting knows it's far easier than being the custodial parent.
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Jo is lucky and needs to live up to his responsibility and not give Kailyn such a hard time. He may have been paying her before, but clearly it wasn't enough and keeping it all legal just simplifies the whole thing.
Do you think he should be paying through the courts?
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I will give Chelsea credit for being a good, involved Mom. She isn't doing anything to support herself by much. She is still relying on her own parents. Jo needs to pay child support like any other respectable Father that is not with the Mother.
I was wondering about the continuous filiming/editing. In this episode I noticed in the scene where Jenelle & her mom are talking about in the kitchen, Jace is in his high chair eating, in the middle of the conversation, they show him on the floor, then cut back to him towards the end of the conversation and he's in his high chair again. And it's snowing in PA, and IA where Kailyn and Chelsea are, but at the end Leah was in a tank top outside in WV?!? WV is just as snowy and cold as PA & IA.....obviously the scenes from Kail and Chelsea were not the same time of year as Leah's.
Jenelle is a wreck and her mom has every right to be controlling and as bitchy as she wants. Chelsea is a brat, and was hardly working her tail off. She's how long, with no job, and no school, to get her GED. She sat around the house day in day not doing anything and still hasn't managed to get it? Kailyn is the only one that shows what's it's really like. She works hard, and Jo is a spoiled brat. I couldn't believe the things he said about her and her job and that she could do more, but yet he lives at home gets his bills paid and wants his money "for his music"..not to mention his weed, anyone remember when he was in the news for getting arrested?
I think Kailyn deserves the child support. My ex-husband pays, over $450.00 a month and does not complain. All the money i receive does go to our son and things he needs. She didn't make the child on her own, and i absolutely commend her for wanting to be on her own. So what if she wears UGGS and Northface? maybe they were gifts, in the Christmas episode it shows she received Uggs from her boyfriend. I don't understand why people, especially fathers or mothers who are still with their husbands, are so critical about her receiving child support. It's in Isaac's best interest. And no I don't think that Jo filing for full-custody is in anyway fair. A child should be raised by his/her mother in most cases. Especially if the mother isn't on any type of drugs, she is in no way neglectful of her son, she is working and continuing education to better THEIR lives.