If you thought Derek the Abstinence Clown was a waste of taxpayer’s dollars, wait ’til you see this shit. I hope Obama has the partisan common sense to zero out all abstinence-only education funding in next year’s budget. Even Bristol Palin says it is a joke.
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I feel so sorry for bristol Palin.
She seems like a decent enough person, a nice kid. It’s not her fault that her mom’s a right wing jerk.
Hopefully they will also be smart enough to zero out the “Partnership for a Drug-Free America” and the “DARE” programs as well. Not only have these propaganda programs, like the abstinence-only programs, been proven ineffective – they actually make kids more likely to want to experiment with drugs after being exposed to them.
Let kids get condoms! Teenage sex is ubiquitous and always was. Teenage pregnancy is a tragedy. If it’s ended, I’m sure it leaves a mental scar. If it goes to term, it results in either a loveless marriage, probably ending in divorce, or a single parent family. A neighbor kid got his girlfriend pregnant a few years ago. They didn’t get married. He’s nuts about his son but has few opportunities to see him. My boss’s daughter got pregnant and the boy was willing to get married, but my boss asked him,”Do you love her?” His answer was,”No but I’m willing to marry her.” My boss told him,”If you don’t love her, don’t marry her.” He and his second wife raised his granddaughter.
I’d guess that in maybe 1% of cases, the couple was in love and planned to marry. Even in those cases, the marriage would be off schedule, affecting their lives for years to come.
Sarah Palin is wrong. It’s NOT all right if the boy is willing to marry her. Bristol now enters adulthood at 15. Is she really prepared to be a wife and mother?