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Activism and Politics => Politics => Topic started by: Natasha on September 03, 2008, 04:32:00 AM

Title: Doing the Right Thing?
Post by: Natasha on September 03, 2008, 04:32:00 AM
Doing the Right Thing?

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/doing_the_right_thing.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/doing_the_right_thing.php)
9/2/2008

I don't understand all the praise I'm hearing from Republicans and Christian conservatives about Bristol Palin (the 17-year-old daughter of VP pick Sarah Palin) doing the right thing by having her baby and marrying the baby's father.

Is it a good idea for any 17-year-old high school student to raise her baby--and to do so with the baby's 18-year-old father, especially when that father is a self-described "f*#%in' redneck" who doesn't want children? Doesn't this sound like a prescription for disaster for everyone involved? (Don't even think about arguing with me over whether teenagers are well-equipped to be parents--with extraordinarily few exceptions they're not.)