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Was Palin wrong about this, too?

It looks like having a bunch of kids and letting them raise themselves doesn't work, even for the governor of Alaska.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090312/ap_on_re_us/br...

Your comments?

Update:

FozzieBear--To the contrary. My own daughter was told how to protect herself and reared to succeed. She is the same age as and just as successful as Chelsea. It is wrong to tell girls to 'abstain' and nothing else!

Update 2:

Jacob W--as a political policy, 'abstinence only' is ridiculous! Teaching sex education and contraceptives--in addition to abstinence could have prevented this situation and countless others.

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    When you raise your children to live in the real world, as you have, they are far less likely to come home and announce an unwanted pregnancy. From what we know of Sarah Palin I doubt honest discussions of sexuality take place in her household and her daughter is the victim.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    A bunch of smart assed answers to a serious situation. From my perspective what happens is supposed to happen. If that is a problem for someone they need to see how the process or system produced that result. Don't like the outcome, check the input. Garbage in, garbage out is the same for family sytems as it is for computer systems. If you can't describe how the system gets the result, you do not understand the problem! How many Palin's are there around the world?

    Source(s): Profession 40 years
  • 1 decade ago

    As a parent I can fully agree with what Sarah Palin said. But let me tell you, it is very difficult to raise children when so much of society, media, school and even video games are pressuring them to have sex.

    Bristol made a bad decision engaging in behavior that resulted in her becoming pregnant when she was not prepared to have a child. That is, unfortunately, much too common these days. But getting married when she is not in a truly committed realtionship would only compound the mistake.

    Abstainance works every time it is tried. But, it is difficult to do. It used to be a lot easier when we were not bombarded with sexual images, language, depictions, situations, referances, advertising and schools handing out condoms which pretty much tells kids that if they are not engaging in sex they are the only ones who aren't.

    Everyone can relate to how much teenagers want to belong. How powerful sexual urges are, how powerful peer pressure can be.

    Sarah Palin was exactly right about this. The fact that her daughted serves as an example of what can happen proves it.

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Hey Palin wanted to be the VP. She wanted to get involved in National Politics. Her and her family are fair game. So deal with it.

    Your young but adult daughter gets knocked up by a white trash, son of a drug dealer. You better belive the tabloids are gonna crawl all over that like maggots to a rotting road kill.

  • 1 decade ago

    while the mice are away the kid's will play. Or is it. "while the cat's away the mice will play?? Seems as if Ms Palin was away for a while...

    Just be glad as all get outs that she did not make it as our Vice Pres.

  • 1 decade ago

    I can't say I am surprised at how much glee you libs are getting as the result of two kids breaking up!

    Not surprised at all.

  • 1 decade ago

    Your guy isn't doing so hot. I can understand your disappointment. It is understandable that you are trying to divert attention away from his failures. Keep on throwing out those red herrings...

  • Pablo
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Sad stories in the media are many times just not true. One would reserve judgment in such a case. Hope they work it out for the child.

  • 1 decade ago

    Who "reared" your daughter? That would explain her not getting pregnant.

  • 1 decade ago

    What has not worked??? Okay so they aren't getting married! Would it have made you feel better if she would have aborted/murdered her baby? Would that make it all better? Would the Gov then be considered a good mother to you?

    Get over it!

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