MTV Announces 'Teen Mom NJ' Show

MTV's cameras are once again bringing life in South Jersey to TV screens across America this fall. The TV network announced plans for its new show, "Teen Mom NJ" with a commercial during this year’s Video Music Awards, and a Facebook page has already been launched.

“The Teen Mom family is getting bigger,” MTV says in its post pinned to the top of the Teen Mom NJ Facebook page. “Get ready for the premiere of 'Teen Mom NJ' this fall on MTV!”

The Facebook page has a number of posts, but no synopsis has been released yet for the show. However, it appears the network that launched as a music video channel before transforming into a have for reality TV shows is following in the success of its previous hits "Jersey Shore" and "MTV Beach House."

The show will follow five teenage moms from South Jersey, specifically, according to the gossip site Teen Mom Talk Now. According to the site, there were camera crews from the network at a fair in Cumberland County earlier this summer, following pregnant girls. Inquisitr.com also reports that there were film crews from the network in New Jersey earlier this summer.

The show is a spin off of “Teen Mom,” which itself is a spinoff of “16 and Pregnant.” It launched in 2009.
While not much is known about the new series, reaction has been plentiful, and mostly negative.

While one Twitter use said the show makes it seem like teenage pregnancy is okay, teen pregnancy rates are actually declining, according to the Center for Disease Control. Birth rates fell 9 percent for women aged 15–17 years and 7 percent for women aged 18–19 years in 2015, which was a record low, according to the CDC's website. However, the site notes that the U.S. teen pregnancy rate remains substantially higher than in other western industrialized nations.

Meanwhile, some people are looking forward to the show's debut.

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