Would you allow your daughter to share her bed with her boyfriend? (581 hits)
I was not a supporter of Sarah Palin and I am happy that she did not become our vp. This article says alot about her personal decisions as a parent and if true is just shameless. It makes you wonder if she was a major influence in the recklessness of her daughter. It makes me wonder if people understand what morality really means.
Levi Johnston Says Sarah Palin Knew Bristol Was Having s*x by Susan Wagner Apr 3rd 2009 3:00PM
This has my jaw on the floor: Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin's baby daddy and former fiancé, says that he and Bristol were allowed to share a bed in the Palin house when they were dating -- and, he says, he thinks that Governor Sarah Palin knew that the couple were having s*x.
"I'm pretty sure she probably knew," Johnston told Tyra Banks in an interview that airs Monday. "Moms are pretty smart." Johnston also told Banks that he and Bristol Palin practiced safe s*x "most of the time."
Which is different, of course, from practicing abstinence all of the time.
Palin Family AlbumGetty10 photos Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband Todd have five children with short, masculine and certainly unique names: Track, 19, Bristol, 18, (with Levi Johnston), Willow, 14, Piper, 7, and Trig, 8 months (not pictured). Read More(Note: Please disable your pop-up blocker) Palin Family Album Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband Todd have five children with short, masculine and certainly unique names: Track, 19, Bristol, 18, (with Levi Johnston), Willow, 14, Piper, 7, and Trig, 8 months (not pictured). Read More
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"We both love each other," Levi Johnston, 18, told the AP in a rare interview about his relationship with 18-year-old Bristol Palin. "We both want to marry each other. And that's what we are going to do."
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Levi Johnston called himself a "redneck' on his MySpace page.
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Sarah Palin initially hid her pregnancy with Trig from the public, causing rumors that Trig was her grandson via Bristol.
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Gov. Sarah Palin, her husband Todd, and daughters Bristol,16, right, and Piper, 5, at the end of a 2006 inauguration ceremony in Fairbanks. Palin, 42, is the first female and youngest governor of Alaska.
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"Trig is beautiful and already adored by us," read a statement by the Palin when Trig was born on April 18. "We knew through early testing he would face special challenges, and we feel privileged that God would entrust us with this gift and allow us unspeakable joy as he entered our lives. We have faith that every baby is created for good purpose and has potential to make this world a better place. We are truly blessed."
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"Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned," the Palins's statement said when they announced her pregnancy. "As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows that she has our unconditional love and support."
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Chuck Heath, 70, (pictured with wife Sally), Sarah Palin's father, said gift boxes for his newest grandson are piling up in the governor's mail room from all over the world. There's no way the family will ever be able to answer every letter, he said, although they are trying.
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Then-Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, her daughters, Piper, Willow, and husband Todd walk out onto the ice to drop the ceremonial first puck before a St. Louis Blues and Los Angeles Kings hockey game.
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Sherry Johnston, Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston's other grandma -- besides Sarah Palin -- pled not guilty for charges of selling OxyContin. "I was in pain, and I'm still in pain," she told People.com.
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I'm having a hard time reconciling all the pieces here. Governor Palin is a vocal advocate of abstinence-only s*x education, but she let her teen age daughter share a room with her boyfriend. And while we only have Johnston's word that the Governor knew the kids were having s*x, I would have to say that he's probably right -- moms are smart, especially moms of girls, especially about stuff like this. In fact, when smart moms want our kids to be abstinent, we do things like, oh, I don't know, say no when a boyfriend wants to sleep over and share a bed with our daughter.
But that's not all.
I also find myself wondering why on earth Levi Johnston thought it was a good idea to spill the beans about this whole sleepover thing on "The Tyra Banks Show" -- does he think this will win Bristol back, or make her family like him more? He told "Good Morning America" that he and Bristol called off their engagement because "it's just us not, me not being mature enough, or something, and having a kid." I agree -- he's not mature enough to be making decisions about s*x, clearly. And also possibly about what to say to the media.
I feel for Bristol and Levi; they've got a hard road ahead of them, both as young parents and as media magnets, and clearly they haven't been getting very good guidance from the adults in their lives. It's our job as parents to help our teens mature into responsible people, and sometimes that means saying no -- to s*x and to interviews.
Irma you had a wonderful upbringing with lots of love, openeness and communication the keys to successfull parenting and well balanced children. We need more of what you had/have out here. As a mother of girls I too have instilled self confidence and decision making in their upbringing. When I feared that they were going a little too far either way I would talk to them letting them know what the consequences could be. So far no kids and though they are at that stage of wanting to experience relationships I am there guiding them on touching, talking and presenting themselves. I know many young mothers who wish someone took that time with them they all agree that they would not have had kids. At that age they are explorative and with all the messages of s*x its hard to not want to experience it. But it is our duty, as parents, to give them the knowledge to know that there is a time and place and level of maturity that should come with this thing that everyone seems to be doing.
Sunday, April 5th 2009 at 8:03PM
crystal smith
...I was not a supporter of Sarah Palin and I am happy that she did not become our vp. I'm with you Crystal.
Monday, April 6th 2009 at 5:56PM
Jen Fad
Yeah Jen they say we have baby mamma drama could you imagine this mess. Plus her baby. Wow.
Tuesday, April 7th 2009 at 9:52PM
crystal smith
My problem with this "assumption" that another can have full control of another person's life. for example, only that individual can account for what they do 24-7 and even then they can not 100% account for their own behavior...
I believe that none of us can control future behavior, because we have not experienced it yet...for example, I doube if we knew that we would fall out of love/respect/trust of the person we married there would be no need for the divorce most of us can not afford...true or not???
Or better yet, "I" look at s*x as a part of human(natural behavioir) not social make up /control much less opinions pro or con in this matter in the first place.OH, at at some times dependant on unconditional self-love(not PROOF of love) and respect and esteem.
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
I have two daughters who were raised by me as my mother raised me to never lie to my own self. My mother was one who I could talk open and honestly with about things , and every thing. And, this is the reason that I was able to tell my daughters that there is no way I would try to watch them, or control how thay valued themselves to do the right thing and if they were to have s*x then just tell me to go with them to get birth control.
I do not know if my daughters had s*x before marriage or not. I do know that they both finished college and were married before they had any children..that I know of...oh, and they had and still have professioinal jobs.
By the way my mother and father were never married to each other and I was raised by my female cousin who had no children of her own after my mother died when I was ten(smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
thank you Crystal for your open and honest out look on truth and reality.I now know what my mother meant when we would talk , after I was an adult,about things. Things I 'thought' I could get pass her, but she always knew ,it seems like what I was up to before even I did in some cases. Her answer was, "Baby I tried it before you tried it because once I was a teen". She and I just laughed as we teens tend to forget that our parents were teens and we tend to forget when it comes to our children that we were their age at one time.
Mom called this 'mother wit' but would only say that I would have it one day.I now believe that mother wit is our children doing to us what we did to our parents, and we now have the life experience to teach them not to do it!!!
COMMUNICATION along with accepting that our children are not our property is the best way. example, I never heard Palin's daughter nor her boy friend say they would marry.that young man is the last person I would want my child married to. She pimped this young man out during the campaign therefore as a N.D Buddhist I call this cause and effect .When I was a Christian, I called this reaping the seeds you sowed.
Truth is good no matter where it comes from nor their personal faiths in God. yes Crystal, iI do believe in God not a Buddha God either. This is another myth about those of us who pracitice (some)Buddhist philosophy. Again, communication is a sure cure for prejudices(smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
