Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol Palin: abstinence 'not realistic'
We've all been so busy talking about Nadya Suleman's 14 IVF babies that we've totally neglected our other favorite unwed mother.
No, not Jamie Lynn Spears.
Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol Palin.
The Alaska governor's 18-year-old daughter expressed some startlingly unconservative views to her mom's good friend at Fox News, Greta Van Susteren, on her show Monday night.
She told Van Susteren that teaching sexual abstinence to teenagers is "not realistic at all."
Bristol 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 also denied that her mom's anti-abortion stand was why she didn't terminate the unplanned 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."
What do you think of Bristol's revelation?
Do you agree with her about teaching abstinence? Is it enough?
Or do kids need to learn about how to protect themselves from STDs and pregnancy?
And when are she and her fiance getting married?
Did Greta ask that? Wonder why not?
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Notice that she said "it's my choice to have the baby" - so she's pro-choice?
On here you're a thinly-veiled liberal, but I'll respond to this article anyhow. Abstinence teaching is essential. We've got to stop making it seem like an OK thing to have sex before you're mature enough to have babies or handle the complications of sex. Hollywood doesn't help---they don't have a clue.
Hey! Maybe I have a shot with her! She's loose!
At 18 she is already displaying more intellect than her mother.
Jana: Can a person not use the use choice anymore? Does it really matter? She choose to have the baby so it doesn't really matter if she supports abortion or not.
Of course it's unrealistic to expect anyone to be abstinent, but why couldn't she have used contraception if she didn't want kids for 10 years?
typical trailer trash
I'm pretty sure they mean "abstinence only" in this article... I don't know of anyone who wasn't taught (or hasn't figured it out for themselves) that it's the only 100% guaranteed way to not have a baby or get an STD. "Abstinence" is certainly realistic, but "Abstinence Only" is another story entirely.
The girl is full of baloney. Abstinence is realistic. So is a refusal to control ones own actions. Miss Palin simply refused to control her own behaviour, and she ended up with a baby. I do, of course, commend her for not murdering the child (aka "abortion").
Abstinence education is counterproductive--I was present for plenty of it in high school. No one learned anything, nobody waited to have sex, and the useful information we needed when we became sexually active was denied to us. People used to get married and have babies at 13... the teenage years are when the urge kicks in. Obviously, social standards and laws have changed, presumably to protect "innocent children," but systematic denial is a bad practice for any problem. Telling horny teenagers they can't have sex until they get married is a disaster situation. "You mean if I want to have sex, I have to become like my angry, divorced parents? No way! I'm having sex now and never getting married!" That's what abstinence education really taught us. Thank god for Trojan commercials, Planned Parenthood, and a handful of brutally honest adults that saved us all from the fate the "abstinence only" nut jobs tried to force upon us.
And cheers to Bristol Palin for saying it's OK to be pro-choice, keep the baby, and stand up to ultra-right wing nut jobs like her mother who push an agenda of fear and misinformation on the youth.