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Parenting can be stellar and yet the kid still messes up. It happens. At a certain age, they start making their own choices, and they can be disappointing, opposed to fundamental truths you taught them. But in Bristol’s case, there are extenuating circumstances. She was, in essence, date-raped. Victims of this often blame themselves to some degree. But the reality is that sex without informed consent is, both morally and legally, rape, and it is not right to blame the victim or the victim’s parents for the vile deeds of third parties, even if the victim struggles to reconstruct the event into something she can handle.

Parenting can be stellar and yet the kid still messes up. It happens. At a certain age, they start making their own choices, and they can be disappointing, opposed to fundamental truths you taught them.

I have four daughters and my first daughter and last the last two are pretty devout conservatives: socially, fiscally, everything.

But, my second daughter is an off-the-rails, OWS-wannabe! Even my youngest at 16 years old asked, "What house did she grow up in?" I changed my parenting skills to meet the needs of my kids, because they are each different, but my core message has always been, self-reliance, self-discipline, hard-work and family love will keep you out of trouble and guarantee you a long life.

She thinks the world, me and everyone else owes her something! I truly do not know what caused her to have this attitude. Now that she has two daughters, she has calmed down some but still thinks that the government should provide houses, jobs, food, cars, etc... for the people. She started slipping away in the eight grade and by the end of the tenth grade she was completely out of my hands. Still to this day I don't know or understand.