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Take a look at the stats of how well a child of a teenage unwed mother does compared to how well an adopted child does.

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The question is not how well some unwanted child in some ghetto would fare but how well her own grandchild would fare. That's why I wanted you to clarify.

Sorry, no way I will accept as a positive thing that Palin would counsel one of her own daughters to give an unexpected child up for adoption.

fwiw, my wife and I have been raising a grandchild for nine years. The thought of advising our daughter to give the baby over to strangers to raise never entered the equation.

also, fwiw, your post prompted me to search the quote (palin book page 115). I found it easily. I also found the video from the debate on you tube. Palin's rendering of what happened in the debate and what the video shows are absolutely not the same. In the video she does not mention adoption at all, her answer was (to her credit) "I'd choose life". In the book she makes a point of stating that her opponents were not asked the same question but in the video they clearly were...iow...the book is less than accurate.

“In the book she makes a point of stating that her opponents were not asked the same question but in the video they clearly were...iow...the book is less than accurate.”

An autobiography designed to spin facts to one’s advantage, impale adversaries and make alot of money...not accurate?

Go figure.

I’ve never understood the Palinistas opinion that her book should be taken as truthfully and literally as the Bible. Take her book, compare it to the hit piece books out there, split it down the middle, and then one might arrive at a semblance of the truth.

But with Palin and her supporters, the truth is an obstacle, not a goal.

Maybe you didn’t get the right debate.
However, the book is approved by Palin herself, so I’m sure the quote is correct.

Maybe also you have never heard of “Open Adoption”. Where a mother gives her baby to a loving couple yet continues to have a part in the child’s life. You are actually doing this.

We hope to. We are in line for “Baby Brittany” right now. I admire her mother greatly. She is tremendously unselfish, knowing that we can give her baby what she cannot. A stable family and basically three parents who adore her. I find it insulting that you are belittling her choice, when you have gone down the same route.

Any mother that gives her baby what she cannot should be given kudos for her unselfishness. Those who do not, are not the kind of people who are thinking of the best for the child.