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It really is sickening, isn't it? Here we have a outstanding conservative who raised her kids with the right moral code, yet (gasp) a teenager went and defied her parents and did what she wanted. Oops, got pregnant, did the *responsible* thing by accepting responsibility and chose to be a mother (as Levi chose to be a father). Has come out saying 'yeah, I was stupid, made a mistake but I love my son, I would have waited ten years though, this isn't glamorous, its hard', all the things she should be saying. Has the support of her parents and family for raising her son with his father...

YET, you'd think Bristol just had an abortion.

I find it utterly amazing that freepers are advocating the radical, fascist stances that are on this thread. Its this moral absolutism that is killing this party. Why? Because we are HUMAN and we make MISTAKES! And part of being human, adult and GODLY is accepting responsibility for those mistakes, learning from them, and not repeating them. Yes, we all agree that a mother and father is the ideal situation. But for many- including many freepers, that just isn't reality. Yet, some here would punish the mother, father and family by advocating putting the baby with another family- without any evidence of lack of care, neglect, abuse, etc.

I am absolutely sickened. Its crap like this that makes me ashamed to be a freeper and a conservative.

Part of responsibility includes admitting you made a mistake and don’t have the right to impose that mistake on the child.

If proper, committed adoptive parents were indeed available, would that situation not have been better, given that you grant that two parents are the ideal?

What do we say about the importance of committed marriage, then, aren’t we really saying it’s really just an optional, “archaic (as I think some put it)” ritual?

I think it's the same reason why shows like Maury Povich, COPS (which I watch myself), and reality TV are popular. A large segment of society with their everyday struggles in life watches shows like that and thinks to themselves. "Hey, I ain't them."

People smugly tear down others to build themselves up. It is as old as society itself. The Pharasees did it back in the day, and their descendants are that way today. So is the smug left in academia.