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Showing Original Post only (View all)OMG, talk about the stupids - Bristol Palin's response to Obama's support for marriage equality [View all]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/bristol-palin-gay-marriage-_n_1506286.html?ref=politics
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.
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.
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OMG, talk about the stupids - Bristol Palin's response to Obama's support for marriage equality [View all]
LynneSin
May 2012
OP
When I look at how Malia and Sasha turned out, and I look at how Bristol turned out, the better dad
Happyhippychick
May 2012
#1
Teen pregnant girl who is not married to the father of her baby, giving advice on marriage.
vaberella
May 2012
#5
it would've been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha why bigotry is justified
fishwax
May 2012
#9
Now I can finally sleep knowing how Bristol Palin feels about marriage equality...
cynatnite
May 2012
#13
Nothing quite like getting advice from an unmarried teenage mother on good parenting. n/t
Downtown Hound
May 2012
#17
What parental advice did Bristol receive? What of it did she ignore or follow?
Gold Metal Flake
May 2012
#18
"Thousands of years ago" ... Dad's sold their daughters into marriage with wealthy old men.
JoePhilly
May 2012
#20
Can't wait until we all hear how she explains her unmarried motherhood to
sinkingfeeling
May 2012
#22
WoW! I can't wait to hear her "thoughts" on quantum physics. WTF cares Bristol?
Tarheel_Dem
May 2012
#27