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Ever since Bristol Palin made the TV rounds a month or so ago advocating abstinence, I’ve had her on my mind.


Why is she doing this?  Is this her punishment from her parents?  You made a mistake so go out and teach other kids not to do what you did.  


First of all since she’s surrounded by the love and support of her parents and living at home with a large family to help, she hardly reflects the dire circumstances so many other unwed, pregnant teenagers find themselves in.  But what really astounds me is how do they really expect her advocacy to work?  First she’s interviewed talking about how hard motherhood is (and I’m in her corner there), and then telling teenagers not to do what she did, but to wait until they’re older and through school and ready.  And then these interviews are finished up showing her in photo shoots cuddling and cooing with her adorably cute baby.


What little girl wants to pass up on that live doll opportunity.  Here’s a role model teenager happily oohing and gooing with her very own sweet baby.  It even made me think twice about another!  She says one thing...she’s doing another and which direction are teenage girls going to take after seeing that?  I think they’re going to want new live, doll, toy babies too.  That was my reaction.


Last week my 15 year old and I were in line at the grocery checkout.  I, of course, was scanning all the headlines on the rack.  And out blurts my daughter, “Oh look mom, there’s Bristol Palin and her little baby,” in just that tone of voice (can you hear it now).  My head did a 360, I didn’t even know she knew who Bristol Palin was, much less talk about her like she’s Hannah Montana.  


Life is full of surprises. 

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