>>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?<<
Spot on.
The Palin child will turn out just fine, but what about the other children of single teenage mothers?
They will go to High School Daycare, see their “baby-daddy” whenever he sees fit and many will end up on the dole. We preach no pre-martial sex but then give the girls no real repercussions to having those babies. Grandparents (Lord Love them) cover it, or the state does.
Pro-life needs to be past the pregnancy. Lord Love every woman who does not abort her baby.
Or we should preach adoption if the father/male isn’t present, like you considered until the father was on board?
What about the other children of teen mothers? Maybe we should look at those stats you mentioned and focus on those. So which demographic has the highest rate of teen pregnancy and no fathers around. I’d say it was the black community, but we’re not allowed to point that out. Teen pregnancy isn’t that big a deal in our area, but then again our area is a white affluent area. You know, those horrible working white people. Those people who take care of their own without government help. Oooh but we can’t say that here.
Or how about the high rate of hispanic teen unwed pregnancies? Again, something we can’t address.
Don’t want to be called racist. RME.
I wonder sometimes where some of you people live. Having been born and raised in the city, inner city, and moved on up to the burbs, some of you talk like you live in the ghetto. And some others talk like they think they know what the ghetto was actually like but really have no clue.
Maybe I’m just lucky and live in a great area with a wonderful public high school and good puplic grade school and good Catholic grade school. Not perfect for sure, but not what some of you post nonstop. I really think some of you live in the slums with all the negative crap you all post.