and you will see that theyre quite similar . i want to keep my baby star mariel hemingway a a girl who become pregnant by her boyfriend and decide to keep her baby and whom she name elizabeth and after the young daughter on the walton and rather than give it up for adoption or raise it at home with her meddling mother . sue ann cunningham be your average southern california teenager . she give birth and and become an irresponsible mother . her boyfriend refuse to take care of their daughter and and she go about her normal teenage activity and include go to the pool in their apartment complex and with her friend . this be similar to the abc family series the secret life of the american teenager . this movie be the inspiration for that series . it also inspire the abc after school special teenage father and and three episode of 7th heaven about teenage pregnancy . watch this movie and then abc family the secret life of the american teenager and and you will see the similarity .