The song is about teen pregnancy. In today's environment people decide when they want to help people in need and when they don't. “She tried to hide her pregnancy from her family. Who didn't really care to see, or didn't care at all if he went out and had a children's church. As long as when the check arrived they had priority.” With those lyrics meaning that her family didn't care that she had a baby as long as when the baby checks come they get a little. Some people think that having a baby is just a free check and more money for them. Saying in the song that Brenda was twelve years old and about to have a baby, she had to drop out of school to take care of her baby. He didn't know much and could hardly write his name. The other criticism is feminist and looks at how these girls behave once pregnant. Most of them don't have a special life and can't participate in a TV show. Most of them have to enter adulthood early and most of the time it is difficult. In 1990, approximately 1 million pregnancies and 521,626 births occurred to U.S. women between the ages of 15 and 19. In 2013, 273,105 children were born to women between the ages of fifteen and nineteen. So teenagers are starting to realize that having a baby at a young age isn't always the best thing