Jamie Lynn Spears Reaches Out To Palin Family. Good Grief!!! - Page 2
The Palin family confirmed reports their eldest daughter Sarah was pregnant shortly after the Alaskan governor was picked as Senator John McCain's running mate in the upcoming presidential election.
"Access Hollywood" has revealed Jamie Lynn's mother Lynne Spears called Los Angeles baby boutique Petit Tresor on her daughter's behalf to order a small gift.
A store insider explains Lynne and Jamie Lynn wanted to send a gift worth under $100 to Bristol, and chose a collection of Plain Mary white burp cloths with pink writing.
The note attached to the gift read, "Dear Bristol, Hang in there ... xoxo, Jamie Lynn."
First of all, if I were a famous person, I'd stop buying stuff from Petit Tresor. They are nosy busy-bodies who can't keep their snooty-mouths shut. Secondly, can we as a country stop glamorizing this teen unwed mother crap? Please? I am begging you. As a mother of two small kids and two grown step-kids this is NOT the impression I want to send to my children. Parenting is a very difficult job regardless of income and status. Children require tons of time, effort and patience. They get sick, they need infinite love and guidance and most of all, they really need the maturity that comes with age and experience.
While I am not suggesting there aren't many success stories of single, unwed mothers, or teen mothers who are forced to marry their baby-daddies due to political pressure, the odds are stacked against them.
Children who are in high school should be focusing on their education and their future, not raising unplanned babies. But of course, I believe in a little thing called teaching abstinence to teens, REINFORCING those values at home, and as a necessary back up, providing them hands-on sex-education that includes information about reliable contraception.
Heck they even had that stuff back in the stone age when I was a teen. Sheesh, who would have thought a social liberal would end up having more conservative values than Christian evangelicals?
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