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.
Nice......g'day, g'night, whatever it may be for you.....put me on your ping list if you have one. Regards.
"Just this final thought: "
O, could we only believe that were true! :)
As to the "libertine" comment, I knew you would not recognize it as humor. I've never seen you recognize humor in ANYone's posts.
You however, might be on DU, as you seem to buy their arguement that Clinton's behavior was "just about sex" and not about perjery, abuse of power and obstruction of justice; hook, line and sinker.
you are correct---I was not strictly correct. Someone closely related to Jefferson may have been the father, but considering that it was an "open secret" at the time, I would conclude that it is more than reasonable that Thomas Jefferson had illegitimate children.
"and laws about juvenile delinquency, public indecency and sex in public are completely irrelevant to this discussion.."
Gay Pride parades consist of public indecency, nudity, live sex acts, and children are witnesses and participants in the parades. So it is germane to the discussion.
And "free speech" didn't mean live sex acts, public nudity and so on until the ACLU teamed up with porn producers a la Larry Flynt. Thanks, ACLU and porn producers!
Clear to you.
The rest of us have stated over and over that we are not offering political arguments or demanding that our politicians do anythign about it.
Strawmen.
Thanks for your constnat snide inner circle humor. You forgot your cutesy little smiley, or maybe I didn't notice it, since you splatter them so liberally about your comments.
so you are admitting that Jefferon, Washington and Adams did write about anything like this
so explain to me what your point was in invoking them on this issue?
I got a couple - Moral Absolutes and Homosexual Agenda. Wagglebee does them too; lately I've been busy but I seem to find the time lately!
Freepmail me which one/s you want on and I'll add your name.
Regards - I'm really off now!
...and to ensure that the casual observer knows I mean it, I'll stand by that.
It's not a threat of unwarranted violence; it's a caution to Islamofascists that if you attack, expect a swift response.
If the cops show up at my door, I hope they accept the coffee and conversation.
Remember, it won't be seen as humor.
LOL! They also didn't denounce live sex shows, cannibalism, gay bath houses, although every state had strict anti-sodomy laws, which was fine with them. In fact, Jefferson loosened the punishment for sodomy from death to mere castration since he was an enlightened gentleman. They also never mentioned sado-masochism, teaching fisting in schools, nor scat rolling.
There were no laws then against internet porn, or, as far as I know, child prostitution.
Your argument is like people who say that since Jesus never mentioned homosexuality, it's a-okay according to the Bible.
What is your point, then?
You spelled "margarine" wrong. ;-)
Take my pick, you say? No problem, I'll take responsibility anytime. That means morality. That means the Government has a duty to promote pro-family values. Cheney is perhaps to blame for the Republicans losing the '06 elections. He - naturally - has to support his daughter, I would too if I were him. But The White House has given lip service to moral conversatives, and it cost them. Big time.
do you want to let people live their life the way they wish as long as they are not hurting others?
As has been established... Mary Cheney's actions are hurting us all. They are adding to the lack of values that made this Country great. So while I don't want the Government to regulate who can and can't have kids, I want policies in force with responsible people in office that promote anti-gay, pro-family values.
Perposterous. That's like saying swimming in lakes consists of skinny dipping. It might, it might not. Either way, public nudity is already illegal, so it's not a reason to ban lake swimming.
so drjimmy, if you aren't prepared to defend your country, the weak, the old, those of less strength, then shut up and walk.
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