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Bristol writes in a Facebook post that fathers should shape their kids' views, not the other way around:
While its great to listen to your kids ideas, theres also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it wouldve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, thats not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that as great as her friends may be we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids worldview.
Bristol has a son with her ex-boyfriend Levi Johnston, but the two were never married and Bristol says that Levi is not part of the child's life.
Really?
How much time do you allow the father of your child, the father you did NOT marry, spend with your child.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)is pretty obvious.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)I would think a better comparison is how Chelsea Clinton is today. But I suspect that Sasha and Malia will turn out pretty well adjusted.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)to change thousands of years thinking about slavery.
Rambis
(7,774 posts)Why anyone would cover an opinion of a dysfunctional, pregnant X teen who has never been married stretches the limits of my brain.
vaberella
(24,634 posts)Hilarious.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,399 posts)Talk about a lame response. I suppose that she thinks that children NEVER have anything valuable to teach their parents! Being a parent myself, my children have taught me more than a few things. Maybe she feels jealous because she wasn't able to teach her parents anything? I'm almost detecting a subtle note of homophobia in her remarks- trying to tell President Obama to "man up"?
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)...prior to your son Tripp being born, you wrote to Levi: "I pray you're NOT the father."
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)She doesn't remember.
Drinking wine coolers until you pass out in the tent and then realizing the next morning you had sex (while your camping buddies all listened) can cause memory lapses.
(I feel sorry for her son...having such a dysfunctional, fraudulent, messed up family)
fishwax
(29,149 posts)Response to LynneSin (Original post)
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Saphire
(2,437 posts)Bristol Palin thinks about marriage equality.....not!
lapislzi
(5,762 posts)Do we care what this teenaged nitwit thinks about national affairs? She probably can't find Alaska on a map.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)and explained to them that gays are filthy subhuman animals who can't control their basest urges?
Bristol's going to be a bigger moron than her mother.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Not only is everyone free to say pretty much whatever he or she wants, but if you are even the slightest quasi-celebrity, major news outlets will report your babbling to the world as "news". It's a beautiful thing.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Gold Metal Flake
(13,805 posts)Is she speaking from experience or just theory?
tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)Than she should try and live that out herself and reconcile with the babydaddy.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)You dope.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Thousands of years ago, probably not much difference.
"You dope."
The Select Committee of Dopes will take exception. She couldn't pass the entrance exam.
PatSeg
(47,351 posts)about "traditional marriage" between one man and one woman. There is no such thing as traditional marriage. If these people would pick up a book now and then, they would know that throughout history, marriage has had many definitions. Even their bible (the ultimate authority on all things evidently) speaks of polygamy and does not condemn it.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I will of THIS single mother... really? You mean an institution that you yourself did not partake off? Really Bristol? The same damn bible that you probably used for this thinking has very bad things to say about lose women Bristol.
Yes, I can quote chapter and verse by the way... it is in Leviticus, look it up.
sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)her son. She's lucky we all didn't keep thinking like they did thousands of years ago or she'd have been stoned.
Bake
(21,977 posts)Of course, she's far from from ideal ...
Bake
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Interesting, that when you are actually being interviewed live and people can watch and hear you speak...you can barely complete a sentence. (course, you couldn't complete high school either)
"Ummmm...ya know it's like....ummm...like you know...for sure...I mean like... yeah...like WHATEVER!"
There...fixed it for 'ya, dumb-ass.
fucking idiot.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)except.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,228 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)Two rats fighting in a sack. I think Bristol's rats have gone to the nuclear option.
Javaman
(62,507 posts)bubbalubagus
(18 posts)hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)The problem is that someone actually reported on Bristol Palin's Facebook post.
The media needs to stop giving her a stage to spout her stupid opinions. I know...I know...it's just so HARD not to let her talk because the stupidity of her thoughts makes for good entertainment. Sounds kind of like what the media does for her mother, too, doesn't it????
Pathwalker
(6,598 posts)Admit it, you skipped ALL your history classes, didn't you?
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)She had her son out-of-wedlock and is raising him as a single mother....don't get me wrong I am fully supportive of her undertaking. We don't know how much Levi is involved in the child's life... But she was never married and is raising a child in a single parent home. So her whole argument about mother/father home ideal is kind of blown away. You should have kept your legs together until you were married.
Secondly, there is ZERO, NADA, NO evidence that a child does better in a home with a mother and a father. Stability, love and nurture are the keys to a child's well-being and happiness. This could be a single-parent home, a home with two mothers or two fathers or a commune of people.
She is a true piece of work, repukkke style.