I believe in adoption, but I also think that we should try to make the best of bad situations. She has a great and supportive family. There are plenty of good male role models in their family. The grandfather - Todd - and the great grandfather - Sarah's Dad - get no better. The child is in great hands... plus, Bristol is a pistol. She seems to be a great mom.
“I don’t see why she would take the chance of putting her baby out into the world”
The risk is negligible. In public adoptions, adoptive parents are vetted as if for a high security clearance. In private adoptions, since there are so many couples who want a baby, people with infants to place can be as choosy as they like about prospective parents.
What it comes down to is selfishness on the part of Bristol Palin. She preferred to keep her baby rather than give him the best possible chance in life.
That’s her right. But in terms of “making the best of bad situations,” let’s not pretend for one second adoption isn’t the best thing for any kid in this situation, even a famous Palin.
“There are plenty of good male role models in their family.”
Yeah, libs have been selling a “good male role model” as an acceptable substitute for a father in the home married to the mother for years now. And how has that worked out? Does anyone really buy it anymore?
Flip the script. Would you say that “a good female role model” is an acceptable substitute for a mother in the home married to the father? It’s absurd.
That we pretend otherwise — that “it takes a village” and “good male role models” are acceptable substitutes for married fathers and mothers — is one of the reasons we’re in such big trouble.
If she were really a “great mom,” Bristol Palin would have married the father or given up her son to a married couple immediately after birth. That’s putting your child first — which is what “great moms” do. Since she didn’t, I’m not interested in anything else she has to say.
Every kid deserves a mother and a father married to each other.