Posted on 03/11/2009 3:47:01 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
The pair, parents to 2-month-old son Tripp, broke up 'a few weeks ago'
Bristol Palin and her fiancé Levi Johnston have broken up, two sources tell PEOPLE.
The split happened "a few weeks ago," according to a source close to the couple, but it's unclear what precipitated it. "It was a mutual thing," adds the source.
"It kind of just happened," says the source, referring to the split. "I thought they would stick it out. But I think they can work together to raise Tripp."
Despite the breakup, Levi still sees the couple's son. Levi's dad, Keith Johnston, told PEOPLE recently that his son is a devoted and "proud father."
Bristol, meanwhile, is attending Wasilla High, taking a class to supplement course work she is completing at home. She also is considering enrolling in college next fall and studying nursing.
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You are welcome.
I have come across a(very)few
people on Free Republic who are
not interested in actually trying
to understand the other point of
view. At that point, it is not worth
continuing.
They are your standards, no one else’s. You have no right to stand in judgement. It is not your position to judge Sarah Palin, either, and piling on the unfair media intrusion makes you as bad as the media. Just another gossip hound. I bet you follow Brangelina and Britney Spears, too.
Get a life.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to be a parent, adopted or otherwise. But again, you're assuming all fall into the same circumstance. And they clearly don't.
If you want to see change, I love Ghandi's advice: be the change you want to see in the world. Go out to community centers and talk to kids. Become a Big Brother/Sister. If you have had a positive impact on one, just one teen, then you have succeeded.
I read the topic and skimmed the posts.
She is what, all of maybe 18? If she feels that she can not marry him, well that is that.
Teenage errors are not great, teenage divorice...yuch.
If she knows now that she can not marry him, good for her.
Not advocating teenage pregnancy at all, sometimes marriage is NOT the answer.
It's not the best situation, but everybody's business? I don't think so.
The biggest problem in society today is too many busybodies sticking their noses in everyone's business. I can't even smoke a cigar without catching Hell these days.
Illegitimacy damages social stability, both in the upper and lower classes.
You can look the other way only so long.
Pat Moynihan was trying to sound the alarm 40 years ago, and was pilloried, essentially ending public discussion of the negative social consequences of single parenthood. Have things gotten better or worse since then, with everybody agreeing not to mention it?
It’s not the mother’s job to provide a father, it’s the man’s job to be a father. No one is stopping Levi from being an active, loving, present father to his son.
My husband and his first wife had a hasty teen marriage due to pregnancy. It lasted 3 months. They separated before the child was even born, so she has never lived with both her parents. She was primarily raised the first few years by her mother, in her grandparent’s home. And hubby had visitation which he never missed. Through the years he was involved with her Brownies and class activities, got separate copies of her report cards, signed her up for and attended her softball games. She spent birthdays with us (in fact, she had her only real b’day parties at our house), complete with sleepovers at our house on weekends for her friends, she went on vacation with us every year to my family’s place in Maine, she spent about half her time with us. She is a lovely and sweet young woman now, with a good relationship with both parents and half-siblings and she and I are also close. She has a huge extended family that loves her dearly.
The numbers are growing.
What we are doing is not working.
There is something wrong with wanting to be a parent. An unmarried parent, that is. If a girl is striving to be an unmarried mother, we as a society have failed her.
I have a 13 yr old. We watch “The Secret Life of AN American Teenager” every Monday night.
This program has a 15 year that got pregnant at, sigh....Band Camp.
However, this show opens up much dialog between us.
We talk about about STD’s, early sex, pregnancy, stigma, etc...
I do not agree with the show but I am happy that every Monday night we sit down and discuss how wrong it all is.
The show is 100% pathetic but the conversations tha we have afterwards is well worth it.
>>It’s not the best situation, but everybody’s business? I don’t think so. <<
When I can opt out of the taxes that I pay to support single mothers and their children, I will consider it no longer my business.
Thank you for post 368.
Marriage does not solve all.
Hugs to you for posting this.
You didn’t read what I said. If you are expecting a drastic change from the government, then you will be waiting forever and always disappointed. Get yourself personally involved. Please re-read my post.
>>No one is stopping Levi from being an active, loving, present father to his son.<<
And I hope for the baby’s sake, he is.
Have a good evening.
My inital answer was “It depends on the details.”
So I’ll spin out some details for you, but the answer is always contingent on which details we imagine:
Assuming she was like Bristol in every detail known to the public I would ask her to explain how she thought she had the right to impose her lifestyle choices on her children—if she thought so little of my fatherhood that she thought her children could dispense with one of their own.
I can’t imagine a response that would make me think that adoption still wasn’t the best option, UNLESS her (and, given her demonstrated selfishness up to that point, most likely my) attempts to identify adoptive parents failed.
If we couldn’t identify a good pair of married parents to adopt the children, then I would support her decision to raise the children with our assistance, but if suitable parents were identified I would indeed fully support the adoption of the child to those parents.
But in the end, she would still be my daughter and I would not permit her and her irresponsible decisions to become a burden to society if I could prevent it.
>>If you are expecting a drastic change from the government, then you will be waiting forever and always disappointed.<<
LOL! I’m not talking about the government. I’m telling you that by encouraging teen mothers, we enable the government.
And we pay for it.
I am telling you to get involved BEFORE they become mothers. And, imagine the positive impact you could have fostering a pregnant teen mom.
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