This is a funny country where the 17-year-old daughter of a candidate is "fair game," but at the same time the children of illegal aliens are considered "innocent victims" of their parent's actions and these kids are to be treated with dignity and open-heartedness. I guess I just don't see where there should be "hunting seasons" on those who do not have to justify anything to anyone other than their parents and their Maker. Anything else IS being vicious just for the sake of wanting to lash out at another but not being able to do so.

As the father of daughters, I don't buy into the "Hillary way" as being the true path and shining light. The fact that a parent is pro-abstinence and the offspring (male or female) strays from the teaching is no surprise or reason to condemn a belief. Kids make mistakes - that's what they do best! I readily admit to being a sinner and not following all of my parent's teachings - in moments of weakness as well as rebellion. That's what offspring tend to do. And whenever that happens, there is usually a price to pay - by the offspring. Anything less condones worse behavior.

For a daughter who finds herself straying from her teachings and now pregnant, it speaks volumes to her character and that of her family to not punish the true innocent - the unborn child - for the transgression. It is especially poignant when the "penance" for the transgression is to carry the child full-term and accept responsibility for the caring and nurturing of the new life, rather than looking at the new life as a cancer, wart or other malignancy. To me, it beats taking the position of sex-for-sex's sake and I'm too important to be inconvenienced by something as trivial as a new life. While people make mistakes, it is refreshing when people take responsibility for the action by not compounding the mistake further due to inconvenience.

This society has become so preoccupied with sex - having it at will, making it a sport, and I'm never responsible for anything. Television has become the cesspool Mr. Minnow feared; movies abound with open sexual acts and gutter-talk (and they call it "art!"); and the kids think t must be right because the so-called adults condone it - and make money off it by the ton.

Sex education in the schools - done because many parents don't seem to want to fulfill parental responsibilities - has done nothing to thwart a rising teen birth rate. If anything, it may be part of the rising problem of kids having kids at younger and younger ages, resulting in more cries for having kids get abortions (sometimes again and again) because adults won't tell kids "no" anymore. Just go by any public junior high school and watch how seventh graders interact - the dress, makeup, competition, need for boy/girlfriends and "steady's," and the other social stresses formerly reserved for 11th and 12th grade. Middle school "proms" and younger-and-younger beauty pageants....where will it end?

No, the I don't have to be responsible for my actions (male or female) and if it feels good, do it and a child now would be so expensive and inconvenient to my career is not a globally-accepted philosophy.

The Dr. Spock stuff hasn't worked, and the free love society has resulted in the most selfish and narcissic generations since the days of Caligula. Personally, I have no problem with people like the so-called old-style conservatives. They at least accept responsibility for their sins, and responsibility has so become a word that "the enlightened" seem to want to remove from Webster's dictionary.