And baby makes six: five children and one grandchild that is to the Palin clan.
Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin announced recently that her daughter, Bristol is with child. The seventeen-year-old plans to keep the baby and marry the father. This revelation comes only a few days after John McCain announced she would be his running mate.
While many will attack the Mrs. Palin and question her parenting skills, truth of the matter is life happens. You can be the best parent: clothe, feed and provide all of life's lessons but at the end of the day, it is the child who will have to make the right decisions.
Before critics jump on this and start to critique Palin's parenting skills and make suggestions that she should remain at home, first let us hear and understand the story and not pass judgment. It takes a lot of courage and strength to have such a private family matter put out there for all to comment.
Certainly, the Palin family is not taking this family matter lightly, after all Bristol is in her second trimester. The family had to have had many conversations on next steps. This pregnancy will definitely change the daughter's entire future. Make no doubt the daughter will be scrutinized and vilified.
We can only hope the daughter is as strong as the mother, who had the strength and fortitude to stand up against corruption in her state. She also unseated a long-standing governor.
Furthermore, if Bristol and her baby's father are deeply in love, then they should marry. However the rush to get married simply because of a pregnancy or political expediency, are not valid reasons.
It would be nice if the Palin Family could deal with this private matter as a family. However, with the limelight being on the possible first republican female vice president this will hardly happen.
What an interesting election year this promises to be.
I guess Sarah Palin is in fact like many of us after all.