Posted on 02/17/2009 6:27:05 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Abstinence is unrealistic, says the daughter of Sarah Palin
From correspondents in Los Angeles
Agence France-Presse
February 18, 2009 11:09am
THE daughter of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has spoken out against teenage pregnancy, but says her famous mother's advocacy of abstinence is unrealistic.
Unmarried Bristol Palin's pregnancy became a US presidential election campaign talking point last year after her mother was announced as John McCain's running mate.
Bristol, 18, later gave birth to a baby boy in December.
Speaking about the birth of Tripp to Fox News, Bristol Palin said she now hoped to become an advocate against teen pregnancy.
"Everyone should wait 10 years," Bristol said.
"I hope people learn from my story - It's so much easier if you're married, have a house and career. It's not a situation you want to strive for."
"I'd love to be an advocate to prevent teen pregnancy. Kids should just wait. It's not glamorous at all," she added.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
From what I saw on Greta’s show last night...she DOES have a loving family who are helping tremendously, HOWEVER...I do NOT understand why she and the Father do NOT get married....NOW. What the heck are they waiting for? A Justice of the Peace could make it happen very quickly.
Heck, the Minister at their Church could also make it happen quickly.
Sometimes good people make bad decisions, especially when they are young. Not many here could say they made it through their youth without making a few bad choices. Many decisions with little or no consequences, some with bigger and life changing consequences. Cut the girl some slack.
And as we all know, when we were young we knew infinitely more then our parents. They just didn’t understand. ;-)
“So what does a person do if their wife or husband dies and they wind up a single parent?”
Look, that’s different. And you know it is. This daughter of Sarah Palin is NOT a widow, nor is the father a widower. They both consciously got themselves “pregnant,” dawdled through her mother’s campaign “thinking” about getting married, and are now boring me with their not getting married.
Perfect examples of people who should give up the baby. Their both unfit parents. Sarah might be a great grandmother (and I believe that she’d be so), but her daughter, in my book, is a disgrace to Sarah and common decency. What’s stopping her (and what HAS stopped her) from getting married? Nothing that we know of. Give up the baby . . .
Do you condone, then, the State going after single parents and forcing them to give up their children- like they're now doing in the UK?
Just got here, glad it was posted again … seldom have time to review all the post for the day. ;-)
I love how because someone isn't married, and even though both parents are involved in raising a child, they are automatically unfit because there's no ring on the finger.
Sarah doesn’r have a problem, people like you do!
“I’m sensitive to this because I was orphaned at nine and (briefly) wound up a ward of the state”
I was given up for adoption at birth . . . I’ve been there . . . I was adopted in the 40s into a nuclear family . . . . I adopted my daughter . . . she’s been there . . . and now she and her husband are trying to adopt a baby.
But . . . she has to go to RUSSIA to adopt because HERE IN AMERICA THERE ARE NO INFANTS IN ANY ORPHANAGE TO ADOPT BECAUSE WE EITHER K-I-L-L THEM IN ABORTUARIES OR WE K-E-E-P THEM in single-parent homes. KILL THEM OR KEEP THEM. So, my daughter and her great husband are going to spent over $40 thousand dollars and are going through reams of bureaucratic crap to adopt a baby from ANOTHER COUNTRY.
Because we’re KILLING THEM OR KEEPING THEM! It gets me mad, as you’ve probably figured out by now.
Why should she give her baby up for adoption? That baby will have plenty of love & be taken care of. Seems to me that it is not our business to tell Bristol what to do with her baby. Marriage isn’t the answer for all teen pregnancies. I am sure she will do what is best for herself & her baby.
You need to read this.
Nice that this was the take-away from that really lovely interview Greta did with her last night. Not that she wished she’d waited TEN years, not that it was so terribly difficult being a mom and a high school student — no, only that ‘abstinence is not very realistic’ given todays high schoolers.
So, I don’t expect a lot of wisdom or clear-thinking from a 17 year old, especially one who is most likely half-crazed from lack of sleep and from being blasted into the next phase of her life so quickly.
I thot that Bristol was well-spoken and thoughtful, very honest and forthright. Amazingly stupid that they focused on this one thing.
You gotta be kidding? She should give away her baby because?
I know quite a few teens, present company included, who did abstain....and it wasn't that hard.
Watching the emotional fallout from the girls who got used...and the cocky callousness that developed in the boys who used them turned me OFF to that whole teenage sex thing.
Agreed!
Ann Coulter nails it in her book. It's all backwards and very wrong. This has been one of my pet peeves for years, since working as a Probation Officer and witnessing this kind of thing up front and in person.
As a person who waited til marriage, big freakin deal. My husband didn’t wait until marriage and he’s the best person I know.
As someone who did practice abstinence, it ain’t easy. Have you never been in the heat of the moment? I seriously wonder how some of you have grown up. I had the best parents a child could ask for but I sure as hell wasn’t perfect. My husband could be considered a manwhore if we look at his teenage/college years. It’s not his parent’s fault just like it aint’ my parents fault for the mistakes I made as a teen.
I am sorry your daughter can't adopt an American baby. I have cousins & friends who have been able to adopt through ads single mothers put in the newspaper. Or ads they put up asking for a baby. I don't believe in abortion but I also don't think every single woman or teenage girl should give her child up for adoption. Mistakes are made by teens & I know many grandparents who are more then happy to keep that child in their family & support it. I don't think it is selfish to want to keep a child in the family. I would not have a problem raising a grandchild.
Give me a break! No one is entitled to her child or anyone’s child, just because they can’t have their own kids.
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