Don’t always put blame on parents

Sandra Novelly, Las Vegas

Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008 | 2:06 a.m.

Regarding Florence Petris’ Friday letter to the editor in which she wrote that maybe Sarah Palin prefers politics to educating her children about the facts of life:

How can one automatically blame every teen pregnancy on the parents? For that matter, how can any teen screw-up automatically be blamed on the parents? Even excellent parents can have a child who, in a moment of personal weakness or as a result of peer pressure, makes a mistake.

Politics lays bare personal things in a candidate’s life that are better left to the privacy of the family and should not be dissected by those who do not know, and are not part of, that family.

I dare say if all the lives of all Americans were laid bare, the dirty laundry would reach from here to the moon and back again. Is anyone pristine enough to cast the first stone?