Where were Bristol's parents?
When my daughter was 16, she went on several coed camping trips with alcohol and slept in the same 4 person tent with two males and one other female: One of the males was called "Dad", the other male was called "Brother" and the other female was called "Mom". The alcohol was a glass of wine that Mom and Dad had with dinner around the camp fire.
The parents have a huge degree of responsibility here too.
Maybe I'm just too d@mned old. Maybe, raised in the 1960's Cuban immigrant culture that was stuck in a mirror image of the 1950's Main Street American culture, I am a dinosaur and have been since I was a kid.
Maybe it makes me as Paleo-Conservative as you can get but I just do not understand how supposedly "conservative" parents can allow their 16 year old daughter to go on an unsupervised, coed camping trip, especially with a scumbag like Levi Johnston.
Yes, around this corner of the Left Coast, high school camping trips are a common practice but I always thought that this was because this geographic area is crawling with liberals slightly to the right of Che Guevara. We did not even allow our son to go on those camping trip.
What has happened to American parenting norms since the mid-1960's?
Whatever happened to the TV stations that would ask, every single night, "It's 10 PM. Do you know where your chidren are?"
In 1963, the answer, "My 16 year old daughter is on an unsupervised, coed camping trip with her boyfriend" would have shocked 100% of the "conservative" parents in America and 90% of the "liberal" parents as well.
I know that, to many here, Sarah can do absolutely no wrong but Todd and Sarah really failed Bristol in this particular area.
As the current father of a 16 year old girl, I am 100% with you.
As the current father of a 16 year old girl, I am 100% with you.