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Mary Cheney's pregnancy affects us all
Townhall ^ | 12/07/2006 | Janice Shaw Crouse

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.


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To: Antoninus
And on a national level, we all saw this in 1992 when H. Ross Perot - in effect - handed the keys to the White House over to Slick Willie and the Hildabeast.

Free Republic wasn't around back then of course, but I wonder how many FReepers would have (and in fact did) vote for Perot?

381 posted on 12/07/2006 12:29:26 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning)
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To: Responsibility2nd

the government isn't promoting lesbian rights here, it just isn't preventing a lesbian from having a child


Here is a quote from you: "I want policies in force with responsible people in office that promote anti-gay, pro-family values".

So you are saying you want government to start telling people how they can and cannot act in their most private affairs. You want your own morality legislated

I think that this is not the role of government.


382 posted on 12/07/2006 12:31:02 PM PST by ChurtleDawg (kill em all)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Free Republic wasn't around back then of course, but I wonder how many FReepers would have (and in fact did) vote for Perot?

I didn't. But if the GOP puts up a pro-abort/pro-homo/anti-gun liberal like Giuliani, all bets are off.
383 posted on 12/07/2006 12:32:24 PM PST by Antoninus (Rudy as nominee = President Hillary. Why else do you think the media love him?)
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To: He Rides A White Horse
.....you see, the Christians you so despise are willing to take up arms to keep your head and body intact. Even if you don't realize it.

And yet, you claim you know what a non sequitur is. I do not think it means what you think it means.
384 posted on 12/07/2006 12:32:57 PM PST by drjimmy
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To: drjimmy
....checking out for a while, Bell Boy. Do me a favor and think about what I'm saying, regardless of your political affiliations.

Gotta get runnin' now.

385 posted on 12/07/2006 12:33:08 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (unite)
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To: drjimmy

Keep your lip buttoned down.


386 posted on 12/07/2006 12:34:06 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (unite)
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To: Antoninus
It's absolutely no stretch to assume that a child brought into a lesbian relationship with no father will have serious psychological issues.

It's a stretch to say you know what specific issues they will have. It's a stretch to say that all lesbians put their careers ahead of their children.
387 posted on 12/07/2006 12:36:59 PM PST by Stone Mountain
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To: drjimmy

I'll be back.


388 posted on 12/07/2006 12:37:30 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (unite)
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To: little jeremiah
Depends on the situation. With the Cheney's resources, I don't see a problem.

Then, you're a fool if you don't think it hurts a child to be denied a father and to be raised by a couple of perverts.

389 posted on 12/07/2006 12:41:19 PM PST by Ol' Sparky
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To: ChurtleDawg
Don't know why I bother in responding, you just don't sem to get it, but here goes another attempt.....
So you are saying you want government to start telling people how they can and cannot act in their most private affairs
Try and think on a National Security level. Yes, I want the government wire-tapping Islamic telephone calls, I want surveilance on drug cartels, I want cameras in the desert to catch illegals. I want cops having the right to search with a warrant. I want profiling done at airports. I want sex predators off the internet. I want DWI checkpoints to stop the 17,000 plus DWI deaths each year. I want a background check on all immigrants.And yes, I want fiscally sound policies that promote family values. I'm tired of welfare queens and prisons full of fatherless children. I'm tired of the RINO'S like Mark Foley who contributed to the GOP's loss 2 months ago. And I'm tired of Mary Cheney and those like her who want to shut me up.

I could go on, but you get the idea.

390 posted on 12/07/2006 12:45:18 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning)
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To: MinuteGal
The question is, what's next for the parents if the adult children they love continue on the path they've chosen in life? Cut them out of the will? Exile them to Elba? Make them stand in a corner?

I guess there would a point that would happen (cutting off all contact), right? If a brother was molesting his sister...If a child committed mass murder, etc.

Any parents that are public figures with any true moral convictions would state unequivocally that they believed their daughter's lifestyle and choice to bring a child into the world in this manner was wrong.

391 posted on 12/07/2006 12:46:44 PM PST by Ol' Sparky
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To: Stone Mountain
It's a stretch to say you know what specific issues they will have. It's a stretch to say that all lesbians put their careers ahead of their children.
Not at all. But then again, you don't seem too terribly well informed on the issue.

Here's a statement for you: "The best venue for raising children is the stable, loving, male-female, two-parent traditional family. Thus, every effort should be made to encourage and strengthen the traditional family, and discourage alternate forms which can cause harm to children."

Agree or disagree?
392 posted on 12/07/2006 12:47:05 PM PST by Antoninus (Rudy as nominee = President Hillary. Why else do you think the media love him?)
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To: Ol' Sparky
Any parents that are public figures with any true moral convictions would state unequivocally that they believed their daughter's lifestyle and choice to bring a child into the world in this manner was wrong.

Exactly. I've highlighted where the problem is.
393 posted on 12/07/2006 12:48:48 PM PST by Antoninus (Rudy as nominee = President Hillary. Why else do you think the media love him?)
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To: zbigreddogz

i have continually refuted your points.


394 posted on 12/07/2006 1:03:45 PM PST by xsmommy
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To: little jeremiah
LOL Theatrics, dramatics, and absolute out of line accusations are always used by those who promote the homosexual lifestyle. Right in there with "hate" and "bigot" and "racist" being used to equate any opinion not matching their own.
395 posted on 12/07/2006 1:06:46 PM PST by gidget7 (Political Correctness is Marxism with a nose job)
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To: Responsibility2nd
"Am I posting at Free Republic here? Or DU?" One really has to wonder sometimes, eh?
396 posted on 12/07/2006 1:08:19 PM PST by gidget7 (Political Correctness is Marxism with a nose job)
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To: He Rides A White Horse
I'll be back.

Here by the sea and sand,
Nothing ever goes as planned.
397 posted on 12/07/2006 1:08:39 PM PST by drjimmy
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To: FloridianBushFan

Actually, children of one parent families do better if the one parent IS A DAD.


398 posted on 12/07/2006 1:12:06 PM PST by huldah1776 (Worthy is the Lamb.)
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To: Always Right

"No, conservatism was never about promoting doing whatever feels good. No one is suggesting the government do anything about it. Calling something wrong that is morally wrong is conservatism. You confuse conservatism with libertarianism."


Thank you, finally someone said it!


399 posted on 12/07/2006 1:14:26 PM PST by gidget7 (Political Correctness is Marxism with a nose job)
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To: Antoninus

The RNC has a habit of funding the least conservative in any group of contenders. The the voters are stuck with a Dem versus a RINO.


400 posted on 12/07/2006 1:17:18 PM PST by little jeremiah
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