WHAT A SURPRISE: Engagement off for Bristol Palin, fiance

[Medusa]

I don't know about ms Spears but I'd say Bristol's preganancy was pretty hypocritcal. Pretty sure Sarah P was pushing to teach "abstinance only" in schools.

Not trying to generalize but a lot of teenagers are more sexual than their parents realize. If your daughers are pure in mind and body, then I praise your parenting skills. Sadly a lot of parents these days are too busy to pay attention to what their kids are doing. And some just don't care. I had a friend who told her daughter "just let me know when you're gonna start doing that" and then put her daughter on birth control pills when she did.

She's still just a kid yet. I don't recall SP's stance on abstinence but just because someone advocates something doesn't mean that everyone is going to follow it, her daughter included. Bristol is a teenager who wasn't thinking of her mom and the possible repercussions that a pregnancy could cause. She was caught up in the moment w/her boyfriend. It may be an embarrassment for them but to judge an 18 year old in this way is harsh. It isn't a drug scandal, it isn't something for which she tried to get front page attention. She's a young girl who thought she was in love and her emotions got the better of her. Now she has to face single motherhood which is tough enough w/out all the finger pointing. I think it's because so many people don't like SP that they're judging her daughter so harshly. I wonder if the reaction would have been the same had it been Chelsea Clinton who was pregnant out of wedlock. I wouldn't have cared either way. Their sex lives are their business and their responsibility.