Posterchild For Teen Motherhood

Posted on April 18th, 2008 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: News, Solange

Posted by Bossip Staff

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Solange speaks on being a teen parent and offers advice for other teen parents such as Jamie Lynn Spears:

Knowles, now 21, welcomed son Daniel in 2004 at the age of 18 (she split with husband, former football player Daniel Smith, after the baby was born).

“I’m sure a lot of people perceived that I was gonna be a young, irresponsible mom. I think that there are some moms who are 35 who are just as irresponsible. You just have to make the best decisions for you. You have to decide what’s best for you. Who are we to say what’s right and wrong for a person?”

To focus on raising her son, Knowles said she “moved to the country for a year” without any nannies or babysitters. “My parents lived on a whole opposite part of the world. My son has been my focus ever since the day he was born. He’s been the light of my life, the inspiration behind everything.”

Good for her.

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  • MS.NYTX

    didnt yall already post this months ago…what is this a remix??

  • MS.NYTX

    something is leading me to believe that solange wasnt getting the love that her bigger sister was receiving…

  • He’s Presidential

    awww her son is gonna b a heartbreaker

  • bree

    @ Ms. NYTX..of course not her parents were busy with Beyonce..look at Ashley Simpson & Jaimie Lynn Spears, they were all cursed with older sisters & neglectful parents

  • Lauren

    LOL Remix….!! I agree with MS.NYTX….She was probably trying to compensate for that love my having a child to love her….

  • Lauren

    That boy needs some sunlight STAT!!

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  • Whatever

    Good for her. But what about the other teenage mothers that can’t MOVE TO THE COUNTRY and know they have stacks on deck to pay the bills. That should be her main focus, she didn’t really have a career, what else would she be doing. (Well she could have been a Brittney Spears, but I digress)..what about the teenage mothers, who have no father involved..go to school, work, and take care of their child. They really deserve praise for taking responsiblity. In a world where were I think,”It is so easy to take the easy way out.”

  • MS.NYTX

    @ bree

    im so later on the other side of the news…ashley simpson gotta kid too?

  • MS.NYTX

    i mean late

  • http://www.diablosbastille.blogspot.com rusty eagle

    WHATEVER, thank you for saying that. When you got stacks like the Knowles family it’s easier than a mfr to say all that. she has been pushed on the public and got acting jobs and singing opps that a proverbial Fantasia type did not get. Rich people need to realize that they can’t advise people who have nothing. At least not without some thought.

  • Southern Belle 225

    @Lauren…isn’t he the palest little thing ever! He’s a cutie though. I want to bite him! :)

  • Melissa

    …Did u say still wet behind the ears?

  • beautiful b

    im sorry but in 08 young moms are nothing NEW. hell it wasnt new in 1978. good job solo, age aside if u birth it take care of it.

  • Southern Belle 225

    @rusty eagle…I cosign with that! When you have money to start off with, it makes certain situations a little easier than it would be for a regular person. But for the little bit we have seen of her and her son, she seems to be a good little mom.

  • beautiful b

    i did hear about ashley simpson being preg…thats gonna be weird loooking kid.

  • bree

    @ Ms. NYTX

    it hasn’t been confirmed..she’s engaged to Pete Wentz and People reported she was engaged because she is pregnant..so it’s a watch and see kind of thing

  • Harlem Chic

    Solange Knowles is not the average teenage black mom. Cause the average teenage black parent is young, dum, and full of come, a high school dropout and is still a child herself. Plus said chic usually is draiining the system through welfare, WIC, foodstamps, and Section 8. I wouldn’t advise anyone to have a baby in their teen years cause you don’t even know yourself.

    Solange’s family is rich and that makes a world of a difference when it comes to being able to provide for your child. It amazes me how out of touch people with money can be. Does Solange even know that Brenda is still having a baby and stuffing him in the garbage can?

    Age ain’t nothing but a number; but bank account funds are real numbers.

  • soulwoman

    Way to go Solange encouraging teen pregnancy. They should have her go around to schools and speak to the kids on how easy it is to raise a child, have a 9-5, while trying to maintain decent grades in school. I wish she would shut up because she always sounds like an airhead. Did she even finish school? She kills me acting like she didn’t get any help from her parents, financially and physically, raising the child and it was just her solo. She was on the road with Beyonce dragging that baby around the world. We she the pictures of you out with your nanny, Solange, so stop lying.

  • outtapocket

    lies, lies, it’s all lies!

  • http://onedroprule.org/about1720.html Nita

    Daniel Smith is not the biological father of that child.

  • http://www.myspace.com/shamecatierrajackson ms meca

    that boy is so bright… he cute but whats up wit his hair

  • JUST NOTICING

    Her kid is devoid of color, ewwwwww.

  • http://Afo.net Nanny

    I wonder did they do a DNA test on this baby, Because he looks NOTHING like Daniel Smith.

  • joy

    some young teen mom…end up getting off welfare and become independent mother.

    I think people fail to realize the welfare was created because women in the 50 and 60 couldn’t get the father of there kids to help with the bills.

    I find it funny that people expect women to be stay at home wives and depend on a man..but when that man disappears and they go on welfare..oh they are horrible people.

    IF CHILD SUPPORT WAS PAID FOR THIS KIDS…WELFARE WOULDN’T BE NEEDED.

  • VeeZee

    True dat Rusty Eagle!!! How is it the “rich and famous” always cry victim. Give me half the loot and I would cry Victory. And I must say for the “umpteen ” time…those chicks are WAY older than they keep claiming. As a matter of fact Solange may be the oldest. The industry (record labels) twist so much stuff around about the artists that they no longer know who THEY are. Look at Lauren Hill..Game..Mariah…they all flipped their wigs. It’s almost like the devil is the CEO!!!

  • Crazy Ass Rodney

    creole baby!!! GO AWAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY

  • as seen on t.v.

    she sounds really stupid…most teen moms don’t have the advantage of having a rich family to fall back on…it’s not like this heffer had to go and find a job while she was out in the country with no nannies or babysitters…her bills were paid and she and that little boy were well taken care of…she really needs to watch what she says…or just stop speaking all together…

  • $m♥K.E.Y.

    Honestly

    I never seen what the father looked like until later

    Um when I saw her son I thought that her husband (at the time) was a white man.

    Now that I know who her baby daddy is ….boggling

    maybe he will grow into his father features???????

  • He’s Presidential

    I know in my family both of my grandparents are brownkin and my grandfather was darkskin and my 13 aunts and uncles range from black brown tan light red. I dont understand why some black people are stuck someone else’s baby daddy. Daniel favors Tina alot.

  • anonymous

    As long as she keeps her son as her main focus, I won’t clown her for marrying the baby’s father ONLY because she was pregnant in the first place.

    But I really am glad to see that Ms. Solange is being responsible about the whole issue.

  • Oh No she didn’t

    Funny, I don’t remember her “focusing” on her son when she’s hanging with LaLa in Carmelo’s mansion smoking on the chief under J.R. the basketball player…hhhmmm somethings make me just wonder.

    I can’t question her mothering skills because I am not around her & her son…But let’s be for real…She is not all that responsible. Be you and stop faking the funk this *ish* is getting old.

  • I’m Just Me

    As it should be. I was a teen mother and still don’t have a nanny and this shyt is hard as hell. But my baby is my heart…so I can feel her.

  • http://www.myspace.com/jackmove718 Naw Son

    Clearly that is not Daniel’s son…CLEARLY, that baby is see threw

  • http://lavatorylady.blogspot.com Lavatorylady

    The best advice is NOT to get pregnant when you’re a teenager! If you do; don’t listen to people like this chick because she is out of touch with the real world. I’m married and in my 30′s and it’s still not easy. I don’t know how people do it when they are still children….I guess you just do what you have to do.

  • MS.NYTX

    i can see a book on the way…

  • http://www.homecookinradio.com Dimple Pink

    Oh please! You had help from your superstar sister’s bank account. That’s why you’ve been able to be responsible and move to the country while your parents are “on a whole opposite part of the world”. Are u serious?!?!

    Like Lavatorylady said the best advice is NOT to get pregnant when you’re a teenager. Period!! This chick wanna talk guidance and happy b/c she had a good deal. She have a supportive finacially stable family. That’s something a lot of young and older women don’t have when bringing a child into the world.

  • $m♥K.E.Y.

    she makes a point

    she comes from money, she coulda got a nanny and be

    dancing on tables at he club or at every promo

    party and be another celebrity social climber, she

    didnt

    money may have helped but clearly she seems to do

    what she gotta do

    unlike Britney Spears, and she had alot of money,

    all of it was hers too

    so she gotta point. some people just know how to handle theirs nuff said

  • I cant say…

    I cant stand those eyebrows…

  • soulwoman

    Oh No she didn’t

    Funny, I don’t remember her “focusing” on her son when she’s hanging with LaLa in Carmelo’s mansion smoking on the chief under J.R. the basketball player…hhhmmm somethings make me just wonder.

    I can’t question her mothering skills because I am not around her & her son…But let’s be for real…She is not all that responsible. Be you and stop faking the funk this *ish* is getting old.

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    Exactly. She singing about getting high and what not…posting pictures of her in a car popping bottles looking tore up…but she is so responsible. Whatever.

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  • soulwoman

    Thank you Solange’s publicist (or is that Solange herself?)

    My mother left the tree smoking alone after she had kids. That’s what a responsible parent would do.

    Again, Solange playing down being a teen parent acting as if it’s something cool and easy to do is not a good message to put out there. Most teen mothers, although they love their child/children, wish they would have waited until they were older, had a good job and were more mature before they had a child.

  • toomuch

    That little boy looks just like a leprechaun. And Solange has a pickle nose. Why is this news?

  • Tuttuttutty

    @Harlem Chic- What?? “young, dumb and full of come?”….. anyway, I dont think she had to experience what an average person would have had to experience as being a young teenage mother. She have privileges that’s way beyond what an average teenage mother have.

  • Oh No she didn’t

    @soulwoman Thanks :-)

  • Ms. T.

    SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN SOLANGE.

  • HAVILAND

    I KNOW TWO MOTHERS THAT SMOKE WEED BUT NOT AROUND THEIR YUNG’UNS THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE SO THAT ISSUE TO DEAD. ANOTHER THING AS LONG AS MY TAXES DON’T GO TO SUPPORT LITTLE DANIEL ALL THESE “RICH” TEENS CAN CONTINUE TO HAVE BABIES. LET’S FOCUS ON THE ONES THAT NEED RESOURCES AND THAT ARE STRUGGLING TRYING TO MAKE IT

  • Applegrrl25

    I can not wait until she writes a tell-all book about her parents’ favoritism towards B and how she was neglected…lol….I want a signed copy!

  • http://www.homecookinradio.com Dimple Pink

    I wouldn’t buy her book if it was $5. Solange need to sit her ass DOWN and continue spending her sister’s money.

  • Kim

    CUTE BIRACIAL BABY AND SOLANGE REALLY LOOKS LIKE A RESPONSIBLE YOUNG WOMAN

    IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT PAPA KNOWLES FORCED DANIEL SMITH TO MARRY HER…….NO WONDER THEY DIVORCED…YOU DON’T FORCE MARRIAGE ON YOUR DAUGHTER JUST BECAUSE SHE IS PREGNANT OR BECAUSE YOU WANNA HIDE AWAY YOUR SHAME

  • Aoki Lee

    This child is soo fugly it’s sad that he hasn’t grown a bit cuter as he ages!

  • Kim

    I JUST LOOKED AT SOLANGE’S BABY’S PICTURES AND THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT THE BABY’S DADDY IS A WHITE MAN……

    THE BABY LOOKS NOTHING LIKE DANIEL SR…..

    I MEAN IT IS WHAT I AM SEEING AND THE BABY HAS NO BLACKNESS IN HIM…MEANWHILE DANIEL SR HAS SOME BLACKNESS

    SOLANGE’S BABY’S FATHER IS A WHITE MAN

  • ATLBlogger

    Lauren SAID:”That boy needs some sunlight STAT!!”

    –LIKE ASAP!!!!! LOL

    & I’m getting tired of her….SERIOUSLY!

  • Babydol

    I used to work at this grocery storein houston . She came over in with that bad azz baby. Both looking a mess!! He was throwing cheetoes all over the place. She tried to buy alcohol and I had to tell her no because she was underage!!

  • Kim

    Babydol

    I used to work at this grocery storein houston . She came over in with that bad azz baby. Both looking a mess!! He was throwing cheetoes all over the place. She tried to buy alcohol and I had to tell her no because she was underage!!

    @BABYDOL

    PLEASE SAVE YOUR PATHETIC COMMENT

  • He’s Presidential

    Some of ya’ll need to get a life trying to be inspector gadget…black stay hatin on black

  • http://gigi@yahoo.com Gigi

    He is a beautiful little boy, black or white. After all, he is a child.

  • Kim

    I’M SORRY BUT THAT KID’S DADDY IS A WHITE MAN

  • Encyclopedia Brown

    Her baby’s daddy is black. She married him right before she got pregnant and then after that she abandoned ship

  • Kim

    Encyclopedia Brown

    Her baby’s daddy is black. She married him right before she got pregnant and then after that she abandoned ship

    NOPE THE SUPPOSED BABY DADDY IS MIXED NOT BLACK AND TO BE HONEST IF THE BABY DADDY WAS MIXED, THAT BABY SHOULD HAVE HAD A TOUCH OF SOME BLACK….BUT THAT BABY LOOKS NOTHING BLACK HENCE THE BABY’S DADDY IS “A WHITE MAN”

  • Tootot

    SOLANGE IS A GREAT MOTHER AND ITS GOOD TO SEE HER WITH HER SON AND NOT NANNYS!

    YALL KILL ME WITH THE COLOR ISSUE..BLACK FOLKS COME IN ALL COLORS AND IF YOU CANT GET THAT THRU YOUR HEAD YOUR UNEXPOSED AND IGNORANT

  • Celebrity CSI

    I certainly don’t condone teen pregancy but if she’s taking care of her son that’s all that really matters at this point. Nobody can re-do the past. Ain’t no reason sittin’ around talkin’ bout woulda, coulda or shoulda for that matter. You just play the cards you’re dealt & keep it moving.

  • http://www.lovingmeans@aol.com 1TruDiva w/ The PlatinumVocals!!!

    toomuch

    That little boy looks just like a leprechaun

    _____________________________________________________

    I have just stepped of the cliff.

  • http://www.lovingmeans@aol.com 1TruDiva w/ The PlatinumVocals!!!

    Black, white, biracial, interracial, multiracial—

    The boy is NOT cute!

    And Ima cut whoever typed he looks “see-threw”

    LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anywhoo

    Funny, when I saw the wedding pictures and I see this kid, my first thought was wow, this kid looks like neither of them, nor any of the family. She obviously had the kid so young to compensate for all the attention being thrown at her sister. I’m glad she is a good mom, but rich teenage moms shouldn’t be giving advice. They will always have help. Remember, her kid is 4 and it is a boy. Let’s talk when that boy is 10, 12, 15. Word.

  • Anonymiss

    Oh lord here goes this demonic looking creature again! Damn it if this kid don’t look like a possessed Ronald McDonald!!!

    That song from the Omen must be this kids theme music

  • chichi

    people are so silly! Black/ mixed people come in ALL shades. Sometimes babies come out lighter or darker than both their parents! My black friend had a baby with a white father and the child looks white, I’m sure theres dumb people who dont think she can be the mother.

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