The folks who don't like the sex ed (the kind that involves, y'know, education) tend to either outright say, or heavily imply, that the kids who get knocked up/do the knocking, it's not because they should have had birth control, but because they either were not told about the no fucking rule, or were raised poorly and without morals and stuff.
Since one assumes that Ms. Palin believes her approach and stances to be moral, and one assumes that she shared these things with her daughter, and attempted to raise her with the message and the morals, what I see there is simply evidence that her approach and stance is misguided as hell, because clearly with the message and morals, still, there was the teenage pregnancy. Apparently it's not actually about lax morals or about permissive parenting or anything like that, at least in this case. *gasp* It's about the fact that teenagers, being biologically adult and emotionally maybe less than great with restraint, have sex when the opportunity presents, in large numbers.
So, yes. I see the mother's behavior as perfectly consistent, but the daughter's as evidence the mother is just doing it wrong.
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The folks who don't like the sex ed (the kind that involves, y'know, education) tend to either outright say, or heavily imply, that the kids who get knocked up/do the knocking, it's not because they should have had birth control, but because they either were not told about the no fucking rule, or were raised poorly and without morals and stuff.
Since one assumes that Ms. Palin believes her approach and stances to be moral, and one assumes that she shared these things with her daughter, and attempted to raise her with the message and the morals, what I see there is simply evidence that her approach and stance is misguided as hell, because clearly with the message and morals, still, there was the teenage pregnancy. Apparently it's not actually about lax morals or about permissive parenting or anything like that, at least in this case. *gasp* It's about the fact that teenagers, being biologically adult and emotionally maybe less than great with restraint, have sex when the opportunity presents, in large numbers.
So, yes. I see the mother's behavior as perfectly consistent, but the daughter's as evidence the mother is just doing it wrong.