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.

[aTailOf2Kitties]

I wasn't trying to judge Bristol or Sarah P, was just trying to clarify why some would call the whole ordeal "hypocritical". Not sure how bad of a problem teenage pregnancy is anywhere else, but it's pretty prominent here in Memphis. It's even legal for you to abandon unwanted babies at hospitals or fire stations (maybe like that everywhere?)