Posted on 02/17/2009 6:01:41 AM PST by Big_Monkey
Teen pregnancy? Not really a good idea.
Stopping teen sex? Ain't gonna happen.
So says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's 18-year-old daughter, Bristol, who told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren Monday night that the abstinence her mom preaches is "not realistic at all."
Bristol Palin's pregnancy, revealed shortly after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate, shook up the last presidential campaign.
Bristol Palin, who gave birth in late December, described the rigors of being a teen mom, and while she wouldn't go into detail why it isn't realistic for guys and gals her age not to have sex, she did say it isn't smart to get knocked up.
"Everyone should wait 10 years," Palin 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."
She denied that her mother's anti-abortion views were the reason she went ahead with the pregnancy.
"It was my choice to have the baby," she said. "It doesn't matter what my mom's views are on it. It was my decision."
But telling her mom that she and her hockey hunk boyfriend, Levi Johnston, were to be parents was tough, she admitted.
"Harder than labor," she said.
Palin raised a kid that has her own opinions. What a scandal.
Getting support from your family is very important when you go through difficult times. Maybe Bristol should try a little harder to give some.
Funny. It worked for me.
Keeping expectations high does reduce it. Just because some folks have sex before marriage doesn't change the ideal is to wait until marriage. Further, I don't know a single person that holds the view that sex should wait until marriage that believes no one will get pregnant outside of marriage.
Democrats will be quick to take abstinence advice from an unwed teen mother.
Sarah needs to give Bristol the Don Corleone talk, “ I have a sentimental weakness for my children and I spoil them as you can see. They talk when they should listen.”
“Never tell anyone outside of the family what you’re thinking again.”
Hollywood’s morals are raising our young people.
I’m not saying that abstinence shouldn’t be the goal, only that isn’t realistic to think it will stop teens from having sex.
Of course from the entire Greta interview with Sarah and Bristol, where important comments on the porkulus and censorship doctrine were made, ONLY this will get spouted by the MSM.
For thousands of years people have started having sex around the same age. Puberty drives the urge. It is as natural as breathing, eating and sleeping. It is when the natural body feels the need. Can’t change that.
What makes you think Christian’s and others who hold this view expect no child to get pregnant? What makes you think Christian’s and others who hold this view keep their kids ignorant about birth control methods?
Many kids I went to HS with were sexually active and got pregnant and many ended them in abortions. Even my best friend brought his 15 year old girlfriend to NY (one of the two states it was legal) to have an abortion and I know for a fact he had condoms and his girlfriend had free BC pills from planned parenthood. It happens with education, with pills and with condoms.
Exactly, and we also have Hollywood to thank for the the Muslim hatred. I listened to a lecture by a Christian man that was raised as a Muslim in Lebanon. He grew up hating Jews and Christians. He is now a Christian, reaching out to the Muslim world.
He said Muslims love watching American movies and they think all Americans behave just like the characters in their movies.....
Therein lies the problem. Selfishness. Not considering the experience of those that know more than she does. 'Pod.
“Never tell anyone outside of the family what you’re thinking again.”
The older I get, the more I see the wisdom in this. I am talking to myself as well. The older I get, the more I tell everyone what I think. But, I don’t mind telling Freeper family what I think!
I did not allow overnights, etc. but to "forbid" it is a exercises in futility. I honestly do not know if my now adult son is a virgin, and I don't want to know (really) but I also did not spend 24 hours a day with him.
The most you can hope for when raising children is that they grow up to be well adjusted, moral, adults. But part of growing up is making your own decisions, and unfortunately your own mistakes. In my case, so far, so good. I have a college freshman (now a single college freshman) that made the Deans list in his first semester!
Yeah, her own opinions.
Too bad she’s (if this article interprets her correctly) an idiot.
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