THE LATEST CHAPTER IN THE TRAILER trash soap opera that is the Spears family has been written. In today’s episode, 16-year-old Jamie-Lynn Spears reveals that the father of her unborn child is not courtesy of her longtime boyfriend, Casey Aldridge, 18.
It turns further scandalous when tabloid magazine Star reports that the Spears family is paying Aldridge to “act as the dad.” The actual father is a good deal older than Jamie-Lynn and may not ever come forward. By ever I mean until there is a $500,000 sale of his story to some media outlet, then he’ll tell us all what color his eyes were at birth and how precisely to spell his name. Until then, we can only speculate who tapped the Spears’ Lolita and who has caused Britney to be viewed as the boring older sister during this recent news cycle.
Jamie-Lynn’s sexual desires for older men is nothing new. The Disney Channel star isn’t a bad example for her worshippers, she is a perfect reflection of them rather. Every high school age girl is disgusted by boys their own age. History has examples as well. Cher hooked-up with Sonny when she was just 16. Bo Derek met her husband John when he was in his 40s while she was under 18. I suppose all this trailer trash debauchery will make for a good single by Jamie-Lynn when the smoke clears.
The book that mother Lynne was writing about how to raise your teenage daughter is off as a result. There has been a long trend of older men romancing younger women. The law says this is not allowed, but in many cases the law is laughed at. Did Sonny serve jail time for seducing Cher? The law should just kind of melt away in time anyway. In U.K. and Canada, the age of sexual consent is 15 and 14, respectively. Here, it’s 18, and it likely is a good number to keep it at. The Spears saga is just another case that American laws cannot change human behavior or in Jamie-Lynn’s case, they actually drew her towards this older man, and her odd Christian/materialist upbringing further confused her mindset. Well she’s still as pretty as Britney was at her age, if not prettier. Let’s see how things look in a couple years. It is likely Jamie-Lynn will be better looking than Britney post-pregnancy. The things that really matter, like which Spears sister was hotter when, those will take a while to shake out.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 29, 2007. Read the original PDF.