[PLUG-TALK] Interesting article about Bristol Palin

Mel Andres mel97215 at comcast.net
Wed Feb 18 22:46:02 UTC 2009


Michael Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 12:11 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Mel Andres wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/video-bristol-palin-calls-abstinence-unrealistic-in-fox-interview
>>>       
>> Mel,
>>
>>    Well, we know it was for her, at least. 
>> Too often adults forget what they
>> were like when they were teenagers.
>>
>> Rich
>>     
>
> I strongly disagree.  Bristol seems very selfish to me.  Isn't it
> interesting that she doesn't know if she's going to marry the guy
> or not?  I'm not saying that she must, but I'd feel a whole lot
> better about what she did if she had decided to marry him before
> she had sex with him.  I don't want to abstain, I want to tell
> God no children and have sex.  Come on, that isn't right.  Between
> this and the show Priviledged on WB32, there are some very
> wrong messages about teen pregnancy going out.  You can have sex
> but you don't have to get pregnant is the wrong message for teens
> to be hearing.  It's very rare that that is the situation and
> when it is, sex doesn't make a bad relationship a good one.  If 
> you don't know that a person loves you before sex you aren't going
> to know after sex.  I don't think abstinence was too much for 
> Bristol, but then we didn't get a lot of information about exactly 
> how she ended up having sex did we?  And why should we, the matter
> should remain between Bristol, the child's father, and God.  As 
> far as the comment that abstinence only doesn't work undermines 
> Sarah Palin, that is merely the comment of a very selfish daughter.
>
> Bristol lived in a fairly isolated area compared to where most
> people live, so in her case sexual activity may have been more
> tempting.  This is one of the reasons why I feel that families
> should avoid places like Alaska.  Kids need to be around lots
> of people and they need to understand that it takes an education
> to make a living these days.  Small village life where extreme
> cold keeps you indoors doesn't lend itself to kids getting that
> understanding.
>
> Bristol didn't explain her it is unrealistic comment and frankly
> I find that interesting.  Why does she think that abstinence is
> unrealistic?  Why should the father of her baby trust her if she
> thinks abstinence, self control frankly, is unrealistic?  She did
> the right thing having the baby and no it wasn't her choice, her
> choice was whether or not to have sex in the first place.  She 
> is lucky that her family supports her and the baby, lucky that 
> they don't just throw her out.
>
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I was waiting for my wife to get out of physical therapy recently when I 
picked up the Nov 3 2008 issue of The New Yorker magazine. On page 64, 
is an article entitled "Red Sex, Blue Sex". This article explains that 
statistics (not opinions) show that where abstinence is the primary 
teaching, that teenage pregnancy is significantly higher than where 
prevention is taught. Even more so, when the teenager made a pledge at 
one of those rallies for "True Love Waits" or "The Silver Ring Thing", 
or similar activity.

There was a second more subtle reason for posting the link. That there 
are proper venues for these kinds of debates.

Mel




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