Right or wrong, it is an accepted circumstance that when running for public office, your personal life, and unfortunately that of your family as well, will be subject to public scrutiny.red said:
Bristol Palin: Abstinence for all teens 'not realistic'
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But if you don't report the results of policy people like Sarah Palin will continue to lie about them and say things work when they don't. In most cases I don't think going into a kids personal life is right, but when you put your family on stage with you your choosing to put them under the spotlight with you. If she hadn't have gotten knocked up you know they would have used her as an example of how abstinance education "works."red said:
And it's not like she needed to do the interview. I didn't even know she'd had the kid until I read it, because I'd stopped thinking about it. But mom needs some PR help and she's doing it for her.
Sadly, she can still be used as an example of how home schooled abstinence education "works."....gramage said:
Also agree she did this silly needless interview to throw mum some PR help.....
That's why I didn't call it a "practice". A practice is something that is implicitly done and can therefore be implicitly avoided/forbidden.red said:
A circumstance is something that tends to happen, despite the fact that our better judgment might not like it.
But once you say it's ok to be on the slope, where does it stop? Is prying into the lives of the Obama girls ok, I would argue that it is not unless they did something that would result in news coverage of anyone else.viking1965 said:
And anyone who had achieved enough notoriety to get media coverage through expressing views including that sex ed should not include condoms but rather be abstinance only and then had a daughter get knocked up would have gotten media attention over it.Aardvark154 said:
Respectfully, I disagree, I don't think it would have made the front page of the Owen Sound Sun Times or the Orcas Islands Islands' Sounder that an 18 year old was pregnant, I doubt that it would have made page B8gramage said:
If the parent had no reputation your right, but thats ignoring something that makes the story relevant. If the child of a famous child phychologist is a drug addicted ex-con thats relevant to how he tells you to treat you children. If the son of a former president who extolled the virtues of the war on drugs has a son on cocaine thats relevant (although it doesn't stop that son from becoming president himself one day.) When you tell others how to live their lives the results of your lifestyle are relevant, and will be reported on not matter what the story is.Aardvark154 said:
I agree that it's a "slippery slope" and it's difficult to draw the line.Aardvark154 said:
But let's be clear, nobody "pried" into Bristol Palin's life. Her conservative "abstinence only" mom dragged her onto the campaign stage, unwed and seven months pregnant. Could anyone reasonably expect that there would be no backlash?
Did Fox news break into her house to do this weeks interview?
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