Not surprisingly, high school was a pre-eminent theme of the night, as teen soap "Gossip Girl" walked away with six surfboards, including Choice TV Show, Drama and TV Breakout Show.

"Gossip Girl" wasn't the only big winner: Teen dreams the Jonas Brothers surfed away with six awards as well, including a jointly shared Male Hottie Award.

And let's not forget that fellow teen sensation Chris Brown won four awards, including Choice Hook-Up (Let's be clear: it was for his duet with Jordin Sparks, not his much-rumored real-life hookup with Rihanna).

And of course there was a winner declared in the M&M Cru/ ACDC dance battle! Although everyone gave it their best, Miley and the M&M Cru were proclaimed winners — which is exactly what ACDC's Adam Sevani knew would happen when he went up against Miley.

MTV News was on the red carpet before the show (check out the hot photos right here!) and we caught up with just about everybody, from the Jonas Brothers — who told us how excited they are about their VMA nomination and performance — Chris Brown — who promises he's going gangsta in his forthcoming movie "Heist" — Danity Kane, Lauren Conrad and loads more! We'll be rolling out this material starting today, so keep your eyes peeled!

So far, Jamie Lynn Spears appears to have taken the troubles faced by her sister, Britney, to heart as she celebrates the birth of her first child. The 17-year-old singer/actress, who delivered a baby girl on Thursday, recently bought a house near her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana, and settled down with fiance Casey Aldridge, 19. She also tried to stay well away from the glare of the Hollywood paparazzi as she prepared to be a mom.

In addition to getting her GED earlier this year, the "Zoey 101" star has said she plans to take a hiatus from work in order to concentrate on being a mother. But that hasn't stopped some social critics from lamenting the seemingly glamorous take on teen pregnancy some high school students might be getting from the tabloid coverage of Spears' baby, as well as the nonjudgmental messages of recent accidental-pregnancy movies "Juno" and "Knocked Up."

On Thursday — the same day that Time magazine's Web site posted a story on a teen pregnancy "pact" in Massachusetts among 17 high school girls — the CEO of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy released a statement in response to the Spears birth.

"Every child deserves a warm welcome, and we hope that Jamie Lynn Spears' new daughter, Maddie Briann, will be surrounded by much love, support and comfort," Sarah Brown wrote. "But the media frenzy that is sure to now erupt, as it did when this pregnancy was announced
last December, provides every parent, teacher, media outlet and more a chance to state the truth: Babies need and deserve adult parents who are committed to each other and to decades of being the best parents possible.

"Hundreds of thousands of teens and unmarried young adults get pregnant and become parents every single year, and few of them have Hollywood beginnings or endings," the statement continued. "Getting pregnant and bearing children is one of the most important steps that any person ever takes, and it deserves careful planning, thought and consideration."

The group's response comes amid reports that the teen birth rate was up by 3 percent in 2006, the first increase in nearly 15 years. According to the campaign, at present, three in 10 girls in the United States become pregnant by age 20, with more than 729,000 teen pregnancies annually.

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The girls' plan shocked parents and administrators at the 1,200-student school and sparked a still-simmering debate about contraception in the fiercely Catholic fishing town's schools, the Boston Globe reported.

"More students are coming in and asking about pregnancy testing," Gloucester's public health director, Jack Vondras, told the Globe last month. "What's odd is that some of them are disappointed because they're not getting pregnant." The Time article reported that at least half the pregnant teens planned to have the babies and that some high-fived each other and began planning baby showers when they found out they were expecting, while others seemed disappointed when their results came back negative. School officials began investigating the unusual spike in teen pregnancies in October, when more than the usual amount of students began visiting the school health clinic for pregnancy tests. By May of this year, Time reported, the school's nurse practitioner had administered 150 pregnancy tests at the clinic, prompting the staff to advocate prescribing contraceptives to students without parental consent.

Equally disturbing is that some of the men involved in the pregnancies are in their mid-20s, one reportedly being a homeless 24-year-old from the area. Last month at a school committee meeting, Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk inquired about filing statutory-rape charges against some of the men, according to the paper.

(In January, MTV News asked experts and a panel of young people, "Why Don't We Always Use Condoms?")

The Time report described the predominantly white, blue-collar town of 30,000 as having been hit hard by the downturn in the fishing industry, with school Superintendent Christopher Farmer saying that the economic hardship has devastated some local families. "Families are broken," he told the magazine. "Many of our young people are growing up directionless."

Two Gloucester teen moms who unexpectedly got pregnant while sophomores at the high school last year told the Herald that the girls who made the pregnancy pact have no idea what's ahead of them. "If I could go back in time, I would want to wait and have the same baby later. You can't do stuff that normal teens do," said Meaghan Orlando, now 17 and the mother of 3-month-old Jayden. "They don't know what they're getting themselves into."

Orlando's childhood friend and fellow new mom Alivia Fidler said the pact was "ridiculous." Fidler — who, like Orlando, plans to return to school next year as a junior — warned the teens that their friendship won't likely survive the multiple births. "They're not going to be friends very long. You have to take care of your baby," said Fidler, who has broken up with the baby's father and lost her job at McDonald's, according to the paper. "It's frustrating. I don't have a lot of support."

At a time when the national teen pregnancy rate rose 3 percent in 2006 — the first increase in 15 years — Time suggested that the school may have done too good a job embracing its young mothers. Sex-ed classes at the school end freshman year, and teen parents are encouraged to take their children to the free on-site day-care center. "We're proud to help the mothers stay in school," said Sue Todd, CEO of the company that runs the in-school day care. The report described a scene where strollers sit seamlessly alongside cheerleaders and junior ROTC members in the hallways of Gloucester High.

(For more on teen pregnancy and other sex-related issues, check out ItsYourSexLife.com.)