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 are not Mary's Mother or Father. So you have no idea if she is causing any anguish on them. You are not them so you have no idea what they are thinking or feeling about this.
So all the founding fathers were wrong and laws against, for instance, sodomy, public indecency, contributing to the delinqency of a minor, pornography, live sex shows and the like which were extant for the first 150 years of this republic were all wrong too.
IOW, the playboy philosophy and the ACLU are the ones who got it right, not Jefferson, Washington, Adams, and all those other dead white men.
I'll bet I work much harder than she does. Touche.
social conservatives just like a different brand of big government "the moral police state" is what I call it
Interesting. Now, show me where anyone here has said anything about using gov't, Big or otherwise?
Arguing against figments of your imagination may entertain you, but it doesn't substitute for reasoned discourse.
To be fair, the author should at least consider the possibility that adult men over the age of 20 are rejecting some of these women. Lesbians aside, many straight single women want to have children on their own. It's not necessarily the women who don't want a man in the picture - many of these are cases of men who don't want these women in the picture.
DING! DING! DING! Hold you calls, folks. There can not be a more stupider post than this.
You forgot to add that her Daddy's the Veep, so she's entilted!
Is your life so boring that you have obsess about what other people (are saying about the homosexual agenda) are doing with theirs?
Shadow boxing; swinging at phantoms that don't exist. Sounds tiring.
Is money an adequate substitute for a father?
I'm interested in your book,but thanks for playing.
Gee, I thought being a Conservative meant not looking to the Government for everything.
I thought it meant letting people live their lives on their own as long as they aren't screwing with anybody else.
I guess you Big Government (so-called) "Conservatives" have taken over.
LInda is one of the most disingenuous liberal trolls I've seen in a long time. I'm not pinging her to comments about her anymore since she is merely a troll.
Yes, let us toss out reason and logic because you have managed to find insult.
Gee, I thought being a Conservative meant not looking to the Government for everything.
I thought it meant letting people live their lives on their own as long as they aren't screwing with anybody else.
I guess you Big Government (so-called) "Conservatives" have taken over.
I didn't know it either, if it's any comfort to you.
libertarians have real problems with that.
In a public forum for political activism? Yes. The implication is clear.
oh good grief, conservatives decrying the decline of the popular culture MUST be screaming for armed insurrection until the gov't regulates against it. strawman.
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