So, Palin’s Daugher is Pregnant? Should we Care?
Raide your hand if you have a child born anywhere in the beginning of 1990.
Raise your hand if you had a child born anytime around the time you were just getting out of High School.
Raise your hand if you know someone in these shoes.
Raise your hand if you remember your parent’s reaction when you told them.
If you’re like me, you’ve just raised your hand a total of 5 times, and have had a growing concerto of images brew in your mind thinking back to those days. Ah, the sheer bliss of the late 80′s – Boy George, Run DMC, and Bush Sr., what a life we had. Then roared in the 90′s with the financial downfalls of empires built by the like of Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken and the sheer madness of the Internet boom and the dot.com growth that made instant millionaires overnight on novel ideas like selling books online or helping someone sell off garage sale items on the Internet to auction frenzied overpayers who’ve since become smarter and simply hit Buy it Now – even at a premium price.
Those years were nuts. True. So were all the babies having babies all around us. Me, my sister, her best friend, some of my friends, some of their friends. We were ALL having kids. We were ALL 16-18. I don’t remember anyone of us being close to 20, and there may have even been one girl who was 15 and I think knocked up by a cousin or an uncle or something – I think I remember her having an abortion. Yes, that.
We’ve all grown up since then, and our kids are now entering college. Yes. College. And in some cases, heck, even have kids of their own. So some of us hitting our mid to late thirties are even Grandparents. Since the 80′s some studies would suggest that more and more kids are having kids, and I would beg to differ. Honestly, I’ve seen less pregnancies among teens, at least in my old neighborhood – when I visit.
But, of course, leave it to political spin to bring this issue to the limelight because Palin’s 17 year old daughter is pregnant. We need to get this out of the airwaves and back where it belongs… In Palin’s living room or her daughter’s bedroom – wherever the act occured, because it simply isn’t a good comparison to the REAL issue of teenage pregnancy. Again, not agreeing that there is a real problem, unless I’ve missed something.
Palin’s daughter being pregnant, at this stage in her life, guarantees her most of the things that many of us struggled to get when we were kids having kids. I am sure Palin’s daughter won’t be sitting in some general hospital asking for Medicaid, or filling out an application for Food Stamps, or trying to get WIC checks to get her baby’s milk. The baby will be born in much the same fashion as any other celebrity baby – with the usual media frenzy, and millions being paid for the first pictures.
Man I wish I’d had it that easy when my first son Michael was born. Life may have been different for me. For him. For all of us.
So, my point is… Palin’s daughter is pregnant. Woo hoo. Can we ask the Republicans and the Media to put attention back on the REAL issues? She had her fun, let’s not let it waste our time.
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