The Washington Post's main article today in its Campaign 2008 section outlines that there isn't really any kind of "traditional" family anymore. Mom goes to work, Dad stays at home with the kids, kids have kids, kids live with grandparents, and the list goes on and on. That's something that I've definitely noticed since my parents are teachers and see all sorts of functional and dysfunctional families throughout their years in the school system. The Post, however, talks about the mission of both parties to send numerous shout outs and thank yous to their families to establish their family based values within the election. Also it discussed the variety of different types of families that are in this election from McCain, on his second marriage, to Palin, five kids and one pregnant one, to the Obamas, a generally "traditional" family if you will, to Biden, who is also on his second marriage only for different, more tragic reasons. Like most articles I've found in the Post so far, this one tends to be rather party neutral until you reach the end of the article. Of course, Palin's daughter Bristol will be brought up since she is only 17 years old and very pregnant. The article comments on the fact that if Republicans still are all for Palin and supportive of her daughter, it means that they therefore believe that God it is okay for all 17 year olds to have sex and become pregnant even though these are very against their party's core beliefs. They even highlight Bristol's pregnancy as what was used to be called a "shotgun wedding" which is sort of out of line in my opinion. They highlighted, in order to counter this, that Michelle Obama has a demanding career, which doesn't really counter the comments at all. They're trying to lean the news so it sounds like the Obamas are and were doing everything that they should have been doing while Palin's daughter was out getting pregnant. Not that I really agree with the way that Palin has potentially ignored her daughter's youth and not given her enough discipline to keep her from going out and getting pregnant at 17 years old, but give her a little bit of slack. Everyone's got some kind of skeleton in their closet.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
"Traditional" Family Up For Discussion
Picture perfect families are indeed a thing of the past or just for the lucky few percent that actually stay together for more than 15 years. The Palins are no different, or are they?
The Washington Post's main article today in its Campaign 2008 section outlines that there isn't really any kind of "traditional" family anymore. Mom goes to work, Dad stays at home with the kids, kids have kids, kids live with grandparents, and the list goes on and on. That's something that I've definitely noticed since my parents are teachers and see all sorts of functional and dysfunctional families throughout their years in the school system. The Post, however, talks about the mission of both parties to send numerous shout outs and thank yous to their families to establish their family based values within the election. Also it discussed the variety of different types of families that are in this election from McCain, on his second marriage, to Palin, five kids and one pregnant one, to the Obamas, a generally "traditional" family if you will, to Biden, who is also on his second marriage only for different, more tragic reasons. Like most articles I've found in the Post so far, this one tends to be rather party neutral until you reach the end of the article. Of course, Palin's daughter Bristol will be brought up since she is only 17 years old and very pregnant. The article comments on the fact that if Republicans still are all for Palin and supportive of her daughter, it means that they therefore believe that God it is okay for all 17 year olds to have sex and become pregnant even though these are very against their party's core beliefs. They even highlight Bristol's pregnancy as what was used to be called a "shotgun wedding" which is sort of out of line in my opinion. They highlighted, in order to counter this, that Michelle Obama has a demanding career, which doesn't really counter the comments at all. They're trying to lean the news so it sounds like the Obamas are and were doing everything that they should have been doing while Palin's daughter was out getting pregnant. Not that I really agree with the way that Palin has potentially ignored her daughter's youth and not given her enough discipline to keep her from going out and getting pregnant at 17 years old, but give her a little bit of slack. Everyone's got some kind of skeleton in their closet.
The Washington Post's main article today in its Campaign 2008 section outlines that there isn't really any kind of "traditional" family anymore. Mom goes to work, Dad stays at home with the kids, kids have kids, kids live with grandparents, and the list goes on and on. That's something that I've definitely noticed since my parents are teachers and see all sorts of functional and dysfunctional families throughout their years in the school system. The Post, however, talks about the mission of both parties to send numerous shout outs and thank yous to their families to establish their family based values within the election. Also it discussed the variety of different types of families that are in this election from McCain, on his second marriage, to Palin, five kids and one pregnant one, to the Obamas, a generally "traditional" family if you will, to Biden, who is also on his second marriage only for different, more tragic reasons. Like most articles I've found in the Post so far, this one tends to be rather party neutral until you reach the end of the article. Of course, Palin's daughter Bristol will be brought up since she is only 17 years old and very pregnant. The article comments on the fact that if Republicans still are all for Palin and supportive of her daughter, it means that they therefore believe that God it is okay for all 17 year olds to have sex and become pregnant even though these are very against their party's core beliefs. They even highlight Bristol's pregnancy as what was used to be called a "shotgun wedding" which is sort of out of line in my opinion. They highlighted, in order to counter this, that Michelle Obama has a demanding career, which doesn't really counter the comments at all. They're trying to lean the news so it sounds like the Obamas are and were doing everything that they should have been doing while Palin's daughter was out getting pregnant. Not that I really agree with the way that Palin has potentially ignored her daughter's youth and not given her enough discipline to keep her from going out and getting pregnant at 17 years old, but give her a little bit of slack. Everyone's got some kind of skeleton in their closet.
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