NOBODY should be taking advice about teen pregnncy from Bristol Palin!

Look I was going to drop this topic and just let Bristol do her acting gig without further comment, but then I started reading interviews and realized that Bristol is promoting herself as an expert on teen pregnancy just like her mother does when it comes to energy issues.

And just like the bullshit that her mother spews Bristol is giving teens the worst possible information.

In this Fox News interview Bristol says a lot of ignorant things but I want to focus on just this one amazing quote:

“It’s possible to raise a baby, and continue on with your education and work full-time.”

No!  No it is not! Well not unless you have a rich mother willing to put you up in an apartment and hire a full time babysitter at least!

MOST teen mothers have to work a crappy job, put their child in childcare the majority of the day, AND more likely than not are still living with a family member, like their mother or grandmother, in order to adequately provide for their child.

There is NOTHING about Bristol's life as a teen mother that relates to the reality which faces the vast majority of teen mothers.

And by the way I am not just talking out of my ass.  When I was a boy my mom was a divorced woman with three young children, no high school diploma, and virtually no job prospects.  She ended up working two jobs and paying a family to keep us in their house and watch us for up to two weeks at a time before she could get time off to be with us for a day or two. 

I rarely saw my mother from the age of six until I was ten years old and she believed I could stay by myself alone at night and watch out for my younger brother and sister.  And I gladly took on that responsibility so that she could work nights and be with us during the days, and we would not have to wait two weeks before we could be a family again.

We had relatives that helped some, but they had their own lives and families to care for, and besides my mother was fiercely independent.

What Bristol Palin is shoveling out to the teens who are watching that program and reading her interviews is extremely harmful to them. 

I am sure that many of you read what Mercede had to say about the number of  Wasilla teens who are anxious to get pregnant and follow Bristol's example. Imagine that same message going out all across this country!

I tried to leave Bristol alone but I simply cannot ignore the fact that she is completely misrepresenting how she is able to care for Tripp, and still support herself,  and even how she became pregnant in the first place. 

As we all now know Bristol became pregnant on purpose!  She CHOSE to get knocked up knowing full well it would embarrass her family and hopefully force her mother to stop treating her like a live in babysitter.  Bristol was tasked with taking care of her sisters, as well as keeping the house clean and preparing the meals, and she resented it!  By getting pregnant she obviously hoped to make her mother treat her as an equal.

Of course it did not work because Sarah Palin is a megalomaniac and does not believe she HAS an equal, but at least it allowed Bristol to get out of that house.

Sarah Palin completely screwed her children up, and that is very unfortunate. But providing a platform for Bristol to promote careless promiscuity, while promising that everything will work out just fine when a young woman becomes pregnant, is absolutely criminal.