ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The 18-year-old daughter of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has given birth in Alaska to a son.

People magazine reports that Bristol Palin gave birth to Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston on Sunday. He weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces.

Relative Colleen Jones tells the magazine the baby is fine and Bristol is "doing well." Jones is the sister of Bristol's grandmother.

The father is Levi Johnston, a former hockey player at Alaska's Wasilla High School. He has said he and Bristol plan to marry.

Palin created a stir in September by announcing the pregnancy as she prepared to accept her nomination at the Republican National Convention.

The governor's office called the birth a private family matter


i feel sorry for the kid when he gets older for he will be made fun of by the name that was given..

I heard that the babyboy Trig Palin is actually Sarah Palins grandson.

Unusual names are great.

Mine is Wyn.

So, did she ever get married or is this baby a bastard?

it says right there in the post that they are planning on getting married..

and the word bastard is mean. i wouldnt call the child that. for half the world be one..

depends uponwho is the mother and youir political leanings. If it were Chelsea Clinton, she would be a heroic sigle mother and the child would be honored, but, a conservative leaning mon...well you see what the libs call them

I heard that the babyboy Trig Palin is actually Sarah Palins grandson.

I knew a guy named Tripp. He was mean has hell and always made fun of me

depends uponwho is the mother and youir political leanings. If it were Chelsea Clinton, she would be a heroic sigle mother and the child would be honored, but, a conservative leaning mon...well you see what the libs call them

Ah well I am almost 50.

I am surprise Gio didn't post on this. In the 50's it was a common term.

Children born out of wedlock until quite recently were called bastards. Even in courts of law.

When only males could inherit real property the issue of legitimacy was huge. Males born out of wedlock or on the other side of the sheets were out of luck except in the direst of circumstances and females...well they had no rights at all.

Did I point that out with some degree of relish? Why yes I did.

Still my question wasn't answered.

Once more, someone has poked about in a thread and assumed what others would say and attempted to make an argument out of it.

I think I am going to make an "If it was a democrat" jar and throw in a quarter every time certain posters resort to it. At the end of the year I will give it all the the ACLU or maybe Planned Parenthood.

If you'd like to talk about the Clintons well gosh, there's a marriage that, although faltering, stayed intact. Both partners continued to honor their commitment. Not like McCain or Gingrich who had affairs and divorced.

I've often wondered if it doesn't piss off some conservatives that that marriage weathered the storm while theirs fell apart. Perhaps that is personalizing things too much? Honestly though...where were the family values crowd then? Did they congratulate the Clinton family for honoring their commitment?

But that's neither here nor there is it? Now it's inconvenient to look at adultery, teen pregnancy, homosexuality, abortion,and divorce...you know all those pesky family values issues that made hay for the republican party?

Gosh they are occur with the same frequency in the republican party as in the democratic party. It's not just liberal loose bra burning immoral women pregnant out of wedlock now. It's the teen daughter of the vice presidential nominee. A young girl brought up in a God fearing fairly rural area.

Don't give me this crap:
"depends uponwho is the mother and youir political leanings. If it were Chelsea Clinton, she would be a heroic sigle mother and the child would be honored, but, a conservative leaning mon...well you see what the libs call them"

I am not the one that ascribed to your family values and then changed my definition.

Funny what happens when you point a finger.

Yes yes...bless this little life..I am sure he won't end up on welfare since Grandma Sarah really needs a different outcome for her political future career to flourish.

I bet things don't go so well for the children and the parents of most teen moms.

For those that think I was being hateful...here is the definition of bastard. If Sarah's daughter is not married the child is a bastard. Begotten and born out of wedlock. Oh, and not to mention in some states that is a criminal act as well. One that gets some teen parents on sex offenders lists.

But...there's no double standard here...nope...not here...you betcha...

Bastard

Source: bouvier

BASTARD. A word derived from bas or bast, signifying abject, low, base; and
aerd, nature. Minshew, Co. Lit. 244; a. Enfant de bas, a child of low birth.
Dupin. According to Blackstone, 1 Com. 454, a bastard in the law sense of
the word, is a person not only begotten, but born out of lawful matrimony.
This definition does not appear to be complete, inasmuch as it does not
embrace the case of a person who is the issue of an illicit connection,
during the coverture of his mother. The common law, says the Mirror, only
taketh him to be a son whom the marriage proveth to be so. Horne's Mirror,
c. 2, Sec. 7; see Glanv. lib 8, cap. 13 Bract. 63, a. b.; 2 Salk. 427;, 8
East, 204. A bastard may be perhaps defined to be one who is born of an
illicit union, and before the lawful marriage of his parents.
2. A man is a bastard if born, first) before the marriage of his
parents; but although he may have been begotten while his parents were
single, yet if they afterwards marry, and he is born during the coverture,
he is legitimate. 1 Bl. Com. 455, 6. Secondly, if born during the coverture,
under circumstances which render it impossible that the husband of his
mother can be his father. 6 Binn. 283; 1 Browne's R. Appx. xlvii.; 4 T. R.
356; Str. 940 Id. 51 8 East, 193; Hardin's R. 479. It seems by the Gardner
peerage case, reported by Dennis Le Marebant, esquire, that strong moral
improbability that the husband is not the father, is sufficient to
bastardize the issue. Bac. Ab. tit. Bastardy, A, last ed. Thirdly, if born
beyond a competent time after the coverture has determined. Stark. Ev. part
4, p. 221, n. a Co. Litt. 123, b, by Hargrave & Butler in the note. See
Gestation.
3. The principal right which bastard children have, is that of
maintenance from their parents. 1 Bl. Com. 458; Code Civ. of Lo. 254 to 262.
To protect the public from their support, the law compels the putative
father to maintain his bastard children. See Bastardy; Putative father.
4. Considered as nullius filius, a bastard has no inheritable blood in
him, and therefore no estate can descend. to him; but he may take by
testament, if properly described, after he has obtained a name by reputation.
1 Rop. Lew. 76, 266; Com. Dig. Descent, C, l2; Ie. Bastard, E; Co. Lit. 123,
a; Id. 3, a; 1 T. R. 96 Doug. 548 3 Dana, R. 233; 4 Pick. R. 93; 4 Desaus.
434. But this hard rule has been somewhat mitigated in some of the states,
where, by statute, various inheritable qualities have been conferred upon
bastards. See 5 Conn. 228; 1 Dev. Eq. R. 345; 2 Root, 280; 5 Wheat.. 207; 3
H. & M. 229, n; 5 Call. 143; 3 Dana, 233.
5. Bastards can acquire the rights of legitimate children only by an
act of the legislature. 1 Bl. Com. 460; 4 Inst. 36.
6. By the laws of Louisiana, a bastard is one who is born of an illicit
union. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 27, 199. There are two sorts of illegitimate
children; first, those who are born of two persons, who, at the moment such
children were conceived, might have legally contracted marriage with each
other; and, secondly, those who are born from persons, to whose marriage
there existed at the time, some legal impediment. Id. art. 200. An
adulterous bastard is one produced by an unlawful connexion between two
persons, who, at the time he was conceived, were, either of them, or both,
connected by marriage with some other person or persons. Id. art. 201.
Incestuous bastards are those who are produced by the illegal connexion of
two persons who are relations within the degrees prohibited by law. Id. art.
202.
7. Bastards, generally speaking, belong to no family, and have no
relations; accordingly they are not subject to paternal authority, even when
they have been acknowledged. See 11 East, 7, n. Nevertheless, fathers and
mothers owe alimony. to their children when they are in need. Id. art. 254,
256. Alimony is due to bastards, though they be adulterous or incestuous, by
the mother and her ascendants. Id. art. 262.
8. Children born out of marriage, except those who are born from an
incestuous or adulterous connexion, may be legitimated by the subsequent
marriage of their father and mother, whenever the latter have legally
acknowledged them for their children, either before the marriage or by the
contract of marriage itself. Every other mode of legitimating children is
abolished. Id. art. 217. Legitimation may even be extended to deceased
children who have left issue, and in that ease, it enures to the benefit of
that issue. Id. art. 218. Children legitimated by a subsequent marriage,
have the same rights as if born during the marriage. Id. art. 219. See,
generally, Vin. Abr. Bastards Bac. Abr. Bastard; Com. Dig. Bastard; Metc. &
Perk. Dig. h. t.; the various other American Digests, h. t.; Harr. Dig. h.
t.; 1 Bl. Com. 454 to 460; Co. Litt. 3, b.; Bouv. Inst. Index, h. t., And
Access; Bastardy; Gestation; Natural Children.