Posted on 12/07/2006 7:16:54 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Mary Cheney’s pregnancy poses problems not just for her child, but also for all Americans. Her action repudiates traditional values and sets an appalling example for young people at a time when father absence is the most pressing social problem facing the nation. With 37 percent of American children born to fatherless families, Mary Cheney is contributing to a trend that is detrimental to all Americans who will live with the ramifications of millions of children whose anger and frustration at not knowing their father will be felt in the public schools and communities of our nation.
Mary Cheney is among that burgeoning group of adult women over age 20 that are driving the trend of women who don’t want a man in the picture, but want to have a baby. These older women are pushing out-of-wedlock birth statistics higher and higher. At a time when teen births and teen abortions are declining dramatically, older women are having more un-wed births and more abortions, including repeat abortions (indicating that they are using abortion as birth control).
Well-educated, professional Mary Cheney is flying in the face of the accumulated wisdom of the top experts who agree that the very best family structure for a child’s well-being is a married mom and dad family. Her child will have all the material advantages it will need, but it will still encounter the emotional devastation common to children without fathers.
One Georgia high school principal reported, “We have too many young men and women from single-mother families that don’t have the role models at home to teach them how to deal with adversity and handle responsibility. They’ve seen their mom work 60 hours a week just to put food on the table; they end up fending for themselves.”
When fatherless children get to be teens, the girls tend to start looking for love in all the wrong places and the boys tend to find as their role model the bad-boy celebrities of MTV, NFL and NBA.
As they grow older, fatherless children tend to have trouble dealing with male authority figures. Too often children in single-mother households end up angry at their absent fathers and resentful of the mother who has had to be a father figure, too. Typically, the boys who have a love-hate relationship with their mother end up hating all women. Numerous of them look for vulnerable women where they can act out their anger and be in control.
Mary Cheney’s action sets an example that is detrimental for mothers with less financial resources who will start down an irrevocable path into poverty that tends to be generational –– children in households without a father tend to themselves have unwed births later in life. Experts from both the left and the right cite a disastrous litany of negative outcomes that are predictable when a child grows up in a fatherless family. Such children tend to get involved in drugs, alcohol abuse, and delinquency; they tend to drop out of school and have teen pregnancies. An assistant principal in a Junior High School said that many of the behavioral problems that teachers face in the classroom stem from households without a father’s influence.
Mary’s pregnancy is an “in-your-face” action countering the Bush Administration’s pro-family, pro-marriage and pro-life policies. She continues to repudiate the work to which her father has devoted his life. Mary has repeatedly said that “studies” show that children only need a loving home. Her statement is incomplete because the experts agree that for the well-being of children, they desperately need a married father and a mother.
All those people who talk about doing what is best “for our children” need to get back to the basics: children need a married mom and dad. Children can do without a lot of the trimmings of childhood, but nothing can replace a home where the mother and dad love each other enough to commit for a lifetime and are absolutely crazy about their kids –– enough to be willing to sacrifice their own needs to see that their children get the very best.
"You forgot to add that her Daddy's the Veep, so she's entilted!"
"Entilted"? I always thought her posture was pretty good.
I like driving trolls back to the cave where they belong.
Hey, I didn't send my kids to public schools, I knew better.
Your time would be better spent trying to push abstinence and the avoidance of high risk behavior in the public schools.
It wasn't the spelling, it was the so-called relativity.* Moral relativists such are yourself are not values neutral at all. Your moral relativity is actually inverse morality, and quite fascistic, since you pretend that no one should judge, sexual behaviors such as sex outside of marriage and homosexuality are morally benign, yet you spend a lot of time slamming those who disagree with you.
So you are not neutral, if you were really as non-judgemental as you pretend to be, then our POV would be just as valid as yours. Moral relativity is found on internal inconsistency and hypocricy. It's just a different standard. But moral absolutists such as myself are happy to debate facts and issues, while moral "relativists" such as you never debate facts, you merely name call, create ridiculous straw man, spout leftist/libertarian slogans and belittle the character of those who disagree.
You're actually pretty funny - a classic.
*But you knew this - just another of your little tricks. Layer upon layer of duplicity is your style, you really think you're quite clever. We're not all bumpkins with straw in our hair - although actually I do live in the country and quite often do have straw in my hair... ;-)
In a public forum for political activism? Yes. The implication is clear.
You suffer from delusions. Many, many things are discussed on this website by reasonable adults. To simply lump them all as proposals for "political activism" is naive.
Should not such women take a look at themselves and figure out why they are not attracting men?
I mean isn't this just the inverse of the whiny "nice guy" who sits home alone because he won't do whatever it takes to change into something more desirable to women?
Let's see, how is it supposed to be spelled,,,, E N T I T L E D.Yeah, that's it!
First of all, he said "career" not just "working." And secondly, it's not all about you.
Really.
People are more well-adjusted when raised by two married committed parents. People whose careers are more important than their families generally have children who show that decision.
As people who choose single parenthood likewise do so to the detriment to their children.
I'm glad things worked out for you, but brodly speaking in aggregate terms, the ideal situation is still ideal.
And Dave, clearly all the threads about Lindsey Lohan, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton are also about political activism. I mean the implication is clear. LOL.
How "Big" L libertarian of you.
I specifically said "materially and emotionally", and you decided to stop at money. Interesting.
I keep a copy of the Constitution in my glove box........want to test those waters?
....tread carefully.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Whatever.
Bet you that 2/3rds of the folks on this thread think that it aught to be illegal for lesbians to have kids, and would advocate the Government taking them away once they are born because they are going to be 'psychologically troubled' or some other bu!!s#!t rationalization.
I know the type. They are really screwing up the Republican Party and the Conservative movement on a whole.
And if it isn't calling for Government action, then we have no reason to be discussing her private life anyway beyond just simple gossip, which is unnecessary and rude.
I stand by my original statement. We should leave Mary Cheney alone.
Fine. Are money and "emotions" adequate substitutes for a father? Can women deliver emotionally the same thing men can? Can a woman be a father?
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