Are not the people who are saying that Bristol should have been controlled, better?

Question

or that Sarah did not keep a good enough eye on her, truely the hypocrites? how many are parents that say that i wonder,

From experience, how often did we sneak off? did our parents know what we were up to all the time? espically at 17? how many of our parents said abstinance, considering safe s*x wasnt "accepted or mainstream" till recently?

And am i wrong in saying that you do have to get to a point that you have to trust you taught them well enough? or you end up going the other direction, and strangle holding them to the point that when you do let them loose they run wild?

its not funny, its not debunking Sarah. its old, and low class, even on Y!A. lay off the kids.

Answer 1

Sarah Palin is the object of the criticism because of her stand on abstinence-only s*x education and the fact that she is a recently prominent representative of the conservative Republican Family Values Party.

Within days of the announcement of her pick as VP, we hear this.  The hypocrites are those who would push their unrealistic and faulty morality on us and tell us that abstinence-only works.  

They are hurting teens all over the country with this stupidity and many others will wind up pregnant at early ages because of the narrow-minded and reactionary policies of people like Sarah Palin.  

Answer 2

My mother is a social worker, and I heard about pregnancies my entire life. I had respect for my parents at age 17, and have respect for my parents now. My mother would've slaughtered me if I came home pregnant in my teens...h**l, if I turned up pregnant now she'd kill me. Sure, lay off the kids--- but the 17 year old shows Palin is an irresponsible parent.

Answer 3

I'm a father of a 17 year old girl. I surprised her mother by insisting that our daughter go on the pill when she was 16 and seeing a boy for several months. She's now going to college, according to plan.

I could care less about Sarah Palin, Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohan or Paris Hilton.  

Answer 4

You're right, teenagers sneak off when parents aren't looking.  

Which is exactly why my dad handed me a pack of condoms at 16 and told me to be careful.  And is also the reason why I wasn't a young father at that age.

Unlike my buddy whose dad was a preacher (and girlfriends parents were very religious), didn't believe in birth control, and now is still paying child support to a woman he cannot stand to be in the same room with for more than 5 minutes.

Answer 5

I agree they should lay off the attacks, but it is hardly hypocritical to point out the obvious.

Answer 6

You would think that liberals wouldn't care being that they encourage teens to 'experiment.'

Maybe they are just upset because she has no plans to abort her 'punishment'