Who is taking care of Sarah Palin's kids?

[demobabe]

I had posted this in Skinner's thread, but this point is very important and I thought it deserved it's own discussion:

Clearly, Bristol should be left alone. But this is the problem: Bristol HAS been left alone. Not by us, but by her parents who put their own careers and greed ahead of their family.

Do you realize Todd Palin works the North Slope (yeah, that's at the VERY TOP of Alaska, nowhere near Wasilla) one week on, one week off. Sarah's office is in Juneau. So please tell me, who is taking care of these children - all five of them - a majority of the time being that neither parent is even in the same city as the kids?

There is a lot of haste here, and a lot of finger pointing to Sarah and Todd Palin (McCain too, of course). Is it any wonder Bristol got pregnant, has been seen partying, and drinking? Skinner mentions he's a stay at home dad, and that is so admirable that he's there with his children 24/7 and that they get to be raised by their actual parents.

Who is taking care of the Palin clan? Where is the support, the backbone, the role models for these children?

Where are the supposed Christian values? Does it say in the Bible to abandon your family to pursue the will of your ego? Last time I checked, it said quite the opposite.

Then there is the complete lack of judgment on both McCain and Palin thinking running Sarah would be in the best interests of her family, exposing Bristol to national scrutiny. That was GOING to happen. No way around it, when your values are Abstinence only, anti Birth Control, and anti Sex Ed. It was clear Bristol would be seen as a failure of Sarah Palin's own platform, a clear indication that Abstinence only doesn't work. Bristol was sacrificed for the cause by both her own mother and John McCain.

How more cruel does life get? At some point, Bristol will understand that not only was Mom not around, but that she (Bristol) was used by her mother and sacrificed in that ultimate greed quest.

Let me leave you with this: why do teenage girls often get pregnant? They feel nobody loves them and if they have a baby, then they'll have someone there that loves them unconditionally. It's true.

Did Bristol Palin act out because her mother wasn't around and she felt abandoned, unloved? We'll probably never know, but it is quite possible.

The thing that burns me the most is the hypocrisy and the spin and the attention to everything in that family except what really matters the most: the family itself.

[seabeyond]

1. beautiful post. i hear ya. n/t

[grasswire]

2. and why didn't someone keep that baby at home....

..rather than drag it to the noise and bright lights of the convention?? I thought that was unconscionable and cruel.

[LibDemAlways]

3. Posting on here that parents need to put their families

first can get you into trouble. I was flamed on other threads for suggesting that perhaps Palin ought to take a look at her priorities. She's the mother of a four-month-old special needs baby. Now it turns out one of her teenagers is pregnant. Dad isn't always in the picture.

She's not running for PTA President, mayor, or even governor of a large but sparsely populated state. She's running for the second highest office in the land. Given that she's the target of an ethics investigation and the parent of kids with some serious issues, perhaps her response when McCain asked her in the first place should have been, "Thanks but no thanks." She's a real piece of work.

[demobabe]

4. Alaska is different than other places

See, it's easy for some to marginalize the whole argument until you consider the fact that Alaska is the biggest state in the Union, and for the majority of the time, one parent is at the Northernmost point, while the other parent is practically at the Southernmost point, with the kids somewhere inbetween.

How would it play in the lower 48 if one parent worked in New York, while the other worked in Los Angeles, while the kids lived somewhere in the Midwest?

This is roughly the situation we have here. Doesn't anybody else find this a bit odd?

[demobabe]

5. kick

:kick:

[onenote]

6. she lives most of the time in Wasilla. Only in Juneau during legislative session

Which is limited to 90 days by law (although there can be special sessions)

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/082907/loc_20070829010.shtml

Not meant as a defense -- just some facts before we look stupid on this.