Do you think these 13-16 year old girls who want to get pregnant and are abusive to their mothers on Maury should get slapped around and that would make them think straight?

No, they need counseling, The parents created the monsters, they are just getting natural consequences, for spoiling their kids and allowing them to talk to them that way, it started at an early age, it didnt just happen over night.

No, I think they need a councilor/therapist to knock some sense into them. They've probably been abused enough.

Nope, slapping them around is probably exactly what they've had, and that is why they are disrespectful.

No child is born knowing how to behave. First you have to teach them right from wrong. That is what the kids on Maury lack. Hitting them when they have no clue what they are being hit for is abuse, pure and simple. I don't care whether it is a light slap on the tush or a club with a 2 x 4, if they don't know what they did wrong or how to avoid punishment in the future, it is abuse.

Training a child up properly takes a lot of work. You have to teach the child when they aren't in trouble in order to hold them to the standard when they've done wrong. If these kids had been carefully taught at three and four to say "yes, ma'am" and "no, ma'am" and then held to that standard all through childhood, they wouldn't even dream of being disrespectful at 13 and they wouldn't be on Maury. If they had been taught from an early age that children have a right to expect two committed parents who work to have the means to support them and have the moral background to be able to care for them properly and train them up properly, they wouldn't be thinking about getting pregnant at 13 when they don't yet have the skills and resources to love the child they bear. Love is, after all, an action as well as a feeling, and they don't have the skills to follow through with the actions.

Getting slap around might actually be the reason they act like that.

No, they've probably already been slapped around by said mothers.
Violence is not the answer. Chastity belts are.

yes if only it would be that easy,but i dont think we will get that lucky.