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Well, if you are living in your parents house and rules and are just a kid, it is not unrealistic. It should be enforced 100%
LOL..I agree. (just kiddin...you teenagers keep it zipped up already)
I an having a difficult time figuring how this works!
I still want to know when she intends to get married. Poor Sarah to have this kind of problem. I’ve heard some real stupid people blame Sarah for this girl’s problem pregnancy. She should either get married, and show some respect for herself and the baby, or give it up for adoption.
The media just loves this.
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Excrement from the bovine species.
I heard the interview and she didn’t exactly say that. But if she did, SO WHAT??? I’m not voting for her for President and Reagan had a REAL renagade leftist for a son.
Easy for a girl who didn’t practice abstinence to say abstinence is unreasonable. Sex is a choice. Period. There are those who do, in fact, wait until they are married. And while the character it takes to do this seems to be getting much more rare, it is possible.
I posted this in another thread, but I think it belongs here too.
I teach in a very well regarded Catholic secondary school in Australia - a Jesuit school (generally regarded as one of the top two Catholic schools in the country - alongside its brother school in Sydney, and one of the twenty or so top schools in general).
They stress abstinence as the best way for their students. The ideal choice. The choice they hope they’ll all make, and the choice they expect them to take. The boys are left in no doubt of what is and isn’t expected of them.
And then they get on to the practicalities. As a non-Catholic I was rather surprised the first time I encountered it, but they tell the boys all about contraception and how to use it if they decide to have sex. I’ve heard one of the Priests put it pretty simply.
“If you’re having sex before you are married, then you’re committing a sin. What I’d say to you is this - if you’re going to sin, then sin safely.”
In my role as a tutor at the school I have personal pastoral responsibility for 16 boys. I’d always urge them to wait in the strongest terms I can (partly because I believe it’s the right thing to do, partly because it’s my job to help reinforce the message of the school, and partly because I know in most cases their parents want them to wait and I try to back parents) - but I’ve also directed boys to contraception in cases where it’s clear that I’m not going to convince them abstinence is the right choice. I don’t want them having sex - but I want them getting a girl pregnant far less.
Compare the Bristol’s quotes in the article posted in this thread to those that appeared in this article posted on FR earlier :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2187811/posts
I love how AP chose the “ditzy” version :-)! Rotten pigs.
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. ;-)
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.
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.
And yet, since the legalization of birth control and abortion, the number of children born out of wedlock has sky rocketed, so that clearly isn't the answer in 2009 (or ever),either.
Thus, until the sexual revolution reverses, the only message to give children is the moral message: abstinence. Maybe if we say it loud, and long and frequently, it will be heard and followed by greater numbers of young people.
If you listen to Greta’s interview, Sarah herself says abstinence is naive.
Everybody is bashing Bristol but nobody is commenting on Sarah’s views.