What a circus!

I have been following the US presidential election nominations with a lot of interest. Anyday the drama produced between only TWO contesting parties can beat the hell out of our very own Ekta Kapoor. First it was this whole race versus gender issue, which got to show that ambitious women in politics are still a strict no-no in the US. And now we have Sarah Palin, the REpublican VP nominee. And what does she come up with? Getting her 17 year old daughter to give birth to her child and marry the father of the baby!! My god..is this US for real? It seems so much like India, where having a child without wedlocks still hasn't got the social sanction. But what was Mrs Palin thinking when she released her public statement on her daughter's pregnancy? Just because her party has a stand against abortion, and Palin herself is a member of a pro-life group called Feminists for Life, can she let that dictate the choices that her daughter's life must make? What's the point in burdening your 17 year old with the care of another child, and then, on top of that, get her married as well? What did the daughter feel when she found out that she was preganant? Did she want to have a baby at 17? No one knows. Bringing another life into this planet, and being responsible for his/her upbringing and well-being is a damn tough job at any age, and making a 17 year old do that....and being married at 18...burdening your child's life with your belief system is the cruellest thing that a prent can do.