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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I don’t disagree with you.
But this is over, it’s done. She had the baby already, so there is no point in debating whether to give the baby up for adoption when Bristol decided she is going to keep him.
Oh, I know why. Because it’s a way for some people to work out a neurosis. A way for some misplaced and pent up anger to come out.
You're obviously trying to make this situation into a crime. Get over it.
All of these things argue for adoption over single parenthood. Deliberate single parenthood in the presence of viable alternatives is self-indulgence dresed up as martyrdom.
It really doesn't matter what you think. All that matters is what Bristol is going to do. She is keeping the baby with or without our permission.
No, the reason she is news is because the media hates her due to the fact Palin is a conservative, period!
If you can't see that, I am afraid you need a BIG pair of glasses.
Can you actually be so obtuse?
SARAH PALIN KNEW HER DAUTHER WAS
PREGNANT AND CHOSE TO RUN ANYWAY
SHE HAD TO KNOW THAT THIS WOULD BE
A PROBLEM FOR HER CHILD YET HER PRIORITY
WAS TO RUN FOR THE OFFICE.
THAT IS MY OBJECTION.
Never mind.
Life is to short to dance with ugly men.
Have a nice evening.
Quoting anecdotes designed to discourage adoption fly in the face of the overall statistics. Single parent households are far and away the most dangerous for children by any measure of any sort of abuse or social maladaptation.
I understand people want to make Bristol’s decision o.k., but cherry-picking anti-adoption anecdotes—outside of the clearly polemical use of them here to attempt to validate Bristol’s choices—to the extent it affects overall social attitudes towards adoption, increases the net suffering of children overall.
Private demons?
Dude, get a life.
Her parents being her parents love that baby to no end.
Private demons?
LOL....
HUH????
She’s probably not going to change her mind, but we are permitted to believe and say her decision was short-sighted, selfish and socially destructive.
Single parenthood in the presence of alternatives is simply wrong. This is not a new or historically controversial position.
And yet some ugly men speak the ugly truth.
Couldn’t stay away, eh?
Why do you keep talking about adoption? It is as if Bristol and her family don’t exist. She won’t give the baby up for abortion, and she and her family are happy to keep the baby! So just quit it!
Oh, shut up!
Because, unlike some, I believe children deserve a mother and father committed, via the socially sanctioned ritual of marriage, to each other and to the child from day one.
Call me old-fashioned. It’s o.k.: I actually AM a conservative.
Ditto on that.
Uh, no.
Feel better for the outburst?
Do you still live with your mom?
Oh no, I’m having a great time, thanks.
Thanks.
No; they’re not retired yet. For now it’s just me, my wife, children and my mother-in-law.
And you—as though it actually matters?
You sound like a total idiot.
I am sure that you are.
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