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It is a wrong perception that women who remain home and raise the next generation of diplomats, statesmen, ministers, missionaries, as well as soldiers, are less patriotic.

What percentage of 18-25 year old women are housewives staying at home and raising kids? And if their husbands are drafted, how to they make ends meet? Go on welfare?

In any case, you can always have (initially at least) a deferment to both sexes with young children. Or better yet, get rid of the Selective Service entirely. There are plenty of good arguments on this thread for that.

Percentage doesn't matter. Our culture should not be force-changed by military planners. There are millions of families who train their daughters according to Biblical Christian family concepts, and they must not be forced to register, and then beg for deferments, or have other forms of service imposed upon them that drag them out of their homes.

The very idea of females being required to register comes from the feminists, and they want all females to have their beliefs set aside, and forced into a new "cultural construct."

With the precedent already set (in the minds of military planners) by young women who are presently willing to leave their children behind and go out and spend months in Humvees with men to whom they are not married, it points to difficulty getting deferments in the future. We have already crossed the threshold of "Because some women WANT TO, all women MUST" (again in the Pentagon think tanks)

Millions of American women, not just a few, still have firm convictions on women daily having the hands-on training responsibility of their own children. There should be NO threat at all to this.