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What Obama was trying to say is that we need education in order to prevent things like teen pregnancies and STD's. I don't know about you but I sure as heck don't want my teen daughter becoming pregnant. I don't want to raise another child when my kids are almost out of the house. I don't want to have to support another child when mine are almost out on their own. And that is what would end up happening if my teen were to become pregnant. That is a punishment for me. Then my teen would either have to quit school because neither her or I would be able to afford the daycare rates and then I would have to babysit at night so my child could go and get her GED. Then my child would not be able to do all of those things that kids do. The movies, hanging out at football games, going to college. That is unless I was willing to babysit every Saturday night. Which is not what I had planned for myself. So I'm sorry but Obama had the right idea when he said what he said.
I would support my daughter in any way I could if she became pregnant as a teen but I would not be happy that it happened for her or me. It's not a cake walk and I hope education in the schools and from home teaches my kids enough so that never happens. I would love my kids no less if it did happen but I would like them to go finish high school, go to college and then get married before having kids if at all possible.
So it does not matter that the message of education was trying to be made. It only matters that he used the wrong word to describe it.
Palin is against sex education and is for abstinence only education in schools. Even though her own daughter is pregnant. So it didnt work for her own daughter but she thinks it will work for our kids. That is far more troubling to me.
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