Good Luck to the Palin’s family.

Trig is Sara’s baby, shows pictures of her pregnant in her Gov. office.

I am glad the girl is getting married.

I do not understand Hollywood not marrying and having two or three children with a man without marring him!!!!????

Elizabeth,I don’t find it inappropriate for CBB to post this. They posted the stuff on Obama and his kids. And honestly, you think every celebrity featured on this site is happy to have their pictures and the pictures of their kids taken all the time ? NO, but we still love the pictures. CBB, I love that you post everything and that you are respectable about it

As I am not an American I don’t have a vested interest in this as a political issue so am looking at it from a more removed viewpoint. What I find difficult to understand is why a parent (either a mother or a father) would choose to put themselves and hence their immeditate family into the public spotlight whilst they have a teenage daughter dealing with pregnancy and becoming a parent and are also parenting a newborn themselves. Surely any parent would realise that taking up such a position in this day and age would include the possibility of their daughter’s personal life becoming public fodder – it’s made the morning, afternoon and evening news on all three commercial television stations here in Australia for the past two days. Not knowing the American system well I could be wrong but wouldn’t the parent have the opportunity to nominate again in four years time?

Not to mention that should Sarah Palin be elected her pregnant teenage daughter then has to make the decision about whether she’ll remain where they live now so that she will continue to have the support of extended family, friends and the support networks she knows to help her as she becomes a mother or whether to uplift her whole life and move interstate in order to have the support of her parents – what a horribly tough spot to place a teenager in when already has so much on her plate.

Personally, I don’t think this should have any bearing on the campaign whatsoever. This is Bristol Palin’s personal business and it is unfortunate that the public now sees it as their own. Sex is common among teens and guess what? Sex leads to pregnancy. I wish her all the best. It may not be easy, but she is owning up to her responsibilities and I, for one, applaud her for that.

i am going to vote for obama.

with that said, i don’t think this is nearly as big of a deal as people will inevitably make it out to be. nearly a third of all women in this country get pregnant before the age of 20, so despite what some of us may want to believe, this is not that out of the ordinary.

what might be some more useful information, i that fact that she is already five months pregnant. i looked for birthdays, of both the daughter and her boyfriend, but they were no where to be found.. which leads me to the math and figure out that there was is roughly a 42% chance that she was sixteen when she conceived, and a 58% chance that the boyfriend was 18 during the conceiving, introducing statutory rape into the mix. the latter percentage is also only assuming that the conception was the couples first time together as well; it would rise if it was not.

I’m sorry but I don’t think it’s right for Bristol to just have to up and marry this boy cause she’s pregnant. He obviously is immature. I just feel bad for her because she probably wasn’t even offered a choice in birth control or deciding whether to keep the baby or not. And I feel bad for her even more because she has to deal with this in a fishbowl. Two weeks ago people didn’t even know her name. I hope she can handle it. Good luck to her.

Sacrificing our freedoms? I guess that includes a woman’s freedom to choose. Welcome to the 19th century. And yes, I would be comfortable saying it to the previous poster’s face. Being a mother, and having gone through pregnancy by choice, I am even more adamant that it should stay a choice.

It really bothers me that so many people are commenting that she can’t be the Vice President because she is a mother and needs to focus on that…none of us are saying Obama can’t be President because he needs to be a father first…regardless of your job you are a parent first, and an *insert job title* after that. However, the fact that a candidate has children has never before been a reason that he can’t be President or VP…of course, the keyword in that sentence is apparently HE. How about we stop stereotyping woman and be proud that our country is going to being making history this year, regardless of which side wins.

Any parent can teach their child all the basics and what is right or wrong. It still comes down to the child making a decision whether it is a good or bad choice. No parent should be held accountable for a teen pregnancy when the teen is 17 years old. We’re talking a year before the teen is classified as an adult. How can a pregnant 17 year old be a relavent concern about Palin’s running for VP? A lot of people will even go as far to say, “those republicans….”! Let’s not bring up our Democratic president before Bush. Is his mother responsible for things he did with other women? Of course not. And his wife shouldn’t be judged because of what her husband did. Same goes for Sarah Palin and her family. In reality, this shouldn’t affect her holding office. As far as her thoughts on what should and shouldn’t be taught in the schools. Even as a young mother I felt it was the responsibility of parents to teach “sex education” in the home. Times now are so different. I think if a child is taught abstinence in the home and schools, being taught “safe sex” in the schools should still bring up the matter of morals and values. You never know what a kid will think and what decision they will make when put in a certain situation.

What on Earth does this have to do with her stances on gay issues(BTW, most Democrats in office oppose gay marriage if that is what you’re refering to) or the Second Amendment? If you disagree with her on these issues that’s your right, but ad hominem attacks because of the actions of her daughter are just petty.