Why is it SOOOOO important to you that they get married right away?
Marriage if they don’t intend to commit their lives to each other and their children would indeed be a mistake.
But their unwillingness to even commit to a timeline for commitment indicates that commitment is going to be a problem for them.
Again, adoption would probably have been the best and most mature decision in this case. But we already knew we were dealing with teenagers...fortunately the Palin family, at least, is functional enough to give the child a fighting chance.
But we can’t pretend that any part of this, other than not rending the child limb from limb, was any sort of moral triumph or uplifting story.
Therein lies the bigger question. Why is any of this important to anyone here? Some seem to think that Sarah Palin invited unlimited scrutiny of her life and the lives of anyone within three degrees of her for having the audacity to be a governor and take the VP spot on McCain's ticket.
It seems to me that these trivial details of the personal lives of her children only became an issue when the NYTs and other far left media decided that anything was fair game if it served to hurt Sarah Palin's political chances with the right.
Those lefties made a calculated decision. They looked at the news stands at the grocery checkout and saw where a lot of people put their priorities. Other people's private lives. Not their own lives, not politics, not public policy. Checking on Britney's panty status is where most of these people's noses are.