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Anti-Teen Pregnancy and Bristol Palin
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| Bristol Palin with son Tripp |
Bristol Palin, daughter of former US vice president candidate and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has been campaigning the Cause "Anti-teen Pregnancy" and advocating that teens abstain from sex recently.Bristol Palin full name "Bristol Sheeran Marie Palin" isn't merely famous because she got knocked up by Levi Johnston, her partner and father of her son Tripp, as a teenager.
In her role as a spokesperson for teen pregnancy prevention. The former Dancing With the Stars finalist became an ambassador for The Candie’s Foundation in 2009 at age 18, a few months after son Tripp was born. It's been as lucrative a gig as it is a ridiculous one and she is being paid more than $260,500.
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| Bristol Palin with her Partner Levy Johnston |
The foundation’s website says Bristol Palin "plays an important role by helping other teens understand the incredible challenges teen parents face."The daughter of Sarah Palin helps do this by "encouraging them to wait until they are socially and financially independent to start their families.” Bristol is still working for the organization. An admirable cause, but is Bristol a good advocate? Answers and proofs may be presented in favor of both sides.her work The Candie's Foundation, a nonprofit organization that seeks to raise awareness of teen pregnancy and parenting issues, reported Bristol Palin's earnings to the Internal Revenue Service. "We know that Ms. Palin's work has had a positive effect on creating awareness about teen pregnancy," Ali Tyrangel, a spokeswoman for the foundation, said in a statement. Tyrangel said an independent survey of 1,000 teens comparing Bristol Palin public-service announcements with those of another organization using non-famous teens found that the Palin spots were much more powerful and attention-getting. "Bristol Palin has been a courageous and powerful partner to the Foundation as we attempt to discourage teen pregnancy," she said. Representatives for Candie's and Bristol Palin could not immediately be reached for comment.
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| Bristol Palin with her mother Sarah Palin |
Bristol Palin, then 18, was pregnant during the 2008 presidential campaign and her son was born in the month after the election. She and the boy's father, Levi Johnston, had a much-publicized breakup.Both young parents have embarked on separate celebrity careers. Bristol Palin was a contestant on ABC's television program "Dancing With the Stars" and went on the lecture circuit;Johnston has been promoting a proposed reality television show and posed, shortly after the 2008 election, for Playgirl magazine.Bristol Palin is working with several other celebrity spokespeople such as actresses Hilary Duff, Hayden Panettiere and Vanessa Milano.
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