[Non-Sequitur]

A seventeen year old pregnant unmarried girl who decides to get married and have the baby and raise it, and a loving family who supports her despite her mistake, all say you don't know much about life.

So should she be raised up as a role model or not?

Come back after you've been around the track a time or two, by then maybe your snot-nosed excuse for an opinion will have mellowed.

I've been around the track more times than I care to think about it, and I've still managed to keep my moral beliefs intact. How about you?

[txhurl]

You got a problem with grandchildren?

[Dianna]

So should she be raised up as a role model or not?

Yes. She made a bad and foolish decision. But she is standing up and taking responsibility for her actions and her baby.

We cannot demand that people never screw up. The best we can do is teach them how to deal with the fall-out with grace and dignity and do the right thing.

[mavfin]

I, too, have teenage daughters, none pregnant, but I don't consider myself better than other parents, or cast stones at those whose girls got pregnant. I consider myself lucky, and thank the man upstairs that so far my girls have remembered what I taught them. It only takes one little slip. Bristol Palin found that out the hard way, and will serve my girls as a reminder of that.

It's a little late to worry about whether she should have or shouldn't have. The deed is done. The good news is that she's making the right choices after finding out she's pregnant.