US evangelicals and teen sex
October 31, 2008 By
Many people may have wondered why conservatives were so unruffled when Sarah Palin announced the pregnancy of her teenager daughter, Bristol, in September. This summary of a New Yorker article provides some clues. In replying to a question about why it appeared that conservatives, Republicans and right-wing groups seemed relatively unperturbed when Sarah Palin announced [...]
Teen pregnancy: no longer shameful, still a concern.
October 25, 2008 By
It may be that the intense media visibility awarded to Bristol Palin’s unintended pregnancy will bring about a shift in public attitudes towards teen’s sex education. Sarah Palin’s extreme and fundamentalist views on sex education, rape, and recently, on bombing abortion clinics have given these issues prominence in the US presidential election campaign. A successful [...]
Breaking news ….
September 8, 2008 By
Lynn Spears and Sarah Palin are identical twin sisters, born to an unwed teenage mom and separated at birth when each was adopted by a different childless couple. OK. I completely made that up. But wouldn’t it be just totally appropriate as the next plot twist in the ‘stranger than fiction’ reality TV spectacle that [...]
This is NOT Mystic Pizza.
June 24, 2008 By
Adolescent girls facing bleak prospects. An economically strapped New England town with a struggling fishing industry. Authoritarian Catholic values. Single motherhood. Peripheral adults. This may sound like a re-make of Mystic Pizza, but it isn’t, it’s real and it is the marginal, impoverished future that many disenfranchised young women in Gloucester, Massachusetts and other small [...]
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