A Convention, or an episode of the Jamie Lynn Spears Reality TV show?
Levi Johnston is on his way to join Palins at convention
By RACHEL D'ORO
The Associated Press
(09/03/08 01:50:37)
WASILLA -- The boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's unwed, pregnant daughter will join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn.
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Can anyone else remember the days when Dan Quayle was talking about unmarried mothers as a scourge? Of course, then, it was all liberals, I'm sure. I really don't like that kind of talk.
And yet, now it seems we have gone to the opposite side of this, and glamorized teen pregnancy. We are celebrating it. Let's take a look at what we're celebrating, and then you ask yourself, is this what we want for America's youth? Is this the future we want to offer to America's young girls? I think we can do better. And we can do better via education, and better access to birth control.
-Teen mothers are more likely to drop out of high school than girls who delay childbearing.
-Teen mothers are more likely to live in poverty than women who delay childbearing, and more than 75 percent of all unmarried teen mothers go on welfare within five years of the birth of their first child .
-About 78 percent of children born to an unmarried teenage high-school dropout live in poverty, compared to 9 percent of children born to women over age 20 who are married and high school graduates.
-A child born to a teenage mother is 50 percent more likely to repeat a grade in school and is more likely to perform poorly on standardized tests and drop out before finishing high school
http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/14332_1159.asp
The teenaged boyfriend should stay home. This is turning into a circus, and before you know it, there will be a new outbreak of 15 & 16 year old children of evangelicals getting pregnant "just like Bristol and Levi".
There is a happy medium between pouring scorn onto these children ala dan qualye, and celebrating them as some sort of celebrity idols. They are not role models.
Levi Johnston is on his way to join Palins at convention
By RACHEL D'ORO
The Associated Press
(09/03/08 01:50:37)
WASILLA -- The boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's unwed, pregnant daughter will join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn.
adn.com
__________________________________________________________
Can anyone else remember the days when Dan Quayle was talking about unmarried mothers as a scourge? Of course, then, it was all liberals, I'm sure. I really don't like that kind of talk.
And yet, now it seems we have gone to the opposite side of this, and glamorized teen pregnancy. We are celebrating it. Let's take a look at what we're celebrating, and then you ask yourself, is this what we want for America's youth? Is this the future we want to offer to America's young girls? I think we can do better. And we can do better via education, and better access to birth control.
-Teen mothers are more likely to drop out of high school than girls who delay childbearing.
-Teen mothers are more likely to live in poverty than women who delay childbearing, and more than 75 percent of all unmarried teen mothers go on welfare within five years of the birth of their first child .
-About 78 percent of children born to an unmarried teenage high-school dropout live in poverty, compared to 9 percent of children born to women over age 20 who are married and high school graduates.
-A child born to a teenage mother is 50 percent more likely to repeat a grade in school and is more likely to perform poorly on standardized tests and drop out before finishing high school
http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/14332_1159.asp
The teenaged boyfriend should stay home. This is turning into a circus, and before you know it, there will be a new outbreak of 15 & 16 year old children of evangelicals getting pregnant "just like Bristol and Levi".
There is a happy medium between pouring scorn onto these children ala dan qualye, and celebrating them as some sort of celebrity idols. They are not role models.
