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.
Okay, good point.
There are much more important things in the world to concern ourselves about, and I will bet that not a single mind has been changed in this thread.
In fact, I'm fairly certain that positions have been further polarized.
You clearly looked for insult, instead of charitably reading his words to indict those two-career homes of the wealthy who place career over child rearing.
Right friend? (smiling)
some one had just posted something to me about how regrettable that many of the old, victorian morality laws were no longer on the books or enforced
She's done that for many years now.
Nope, I'm in favor of the actual people deciding what they want to be legal/illegal. For instance: In my very rural very small town a man bought a commercial building and planned a bar and strip joint. In this very small (three blocks long) town, there are already about 7 bars and lots of fatalities (many involving liquor) and the road in and out of this valley is notoriously dangerous.
There was a city council meeting with the hugest attendence in years, with every single person except this man and one or two supporters who did not want him to be given a liquor/entertainment license. The city council had to give him the license because - why? Because the state mandates that there can be no moral reason to disallow any business licence. No moral values are allowed to influence any licensing in this wonderful state. Then a petition circulated garnering over 600 signatures in a week. Every issue of the local paper had about 10 letters each week, the vast majority against the opening of the strip joint.
A similar thing happened when a porno shop opened on the main street, where middle school and high school kids walk by every school day. The state legislature (at that time run by Democrats, btw) mandated that porn shops have a right to promote porn everywhere and anywhere, just not right next to a school.
So what if the local people who actually live here overwhelmingly DO NOT WANT PORN SHOPS AND STRIP JOINTS IN THE DOWNTOWN OF THEIR SMALL TOWN. Big state government has shoved this down our throats whether we want it or not.
This is Big Government.
Luckily, the strip joint entrepeneur ran out of money.
You said "whatever" to my pointing out that your suggestion that everything said on FR is a call to "political activism" was absurd.
Do yourself, and the conservative movement a favor: Lock yourself in the closet and never come out.
Do the conservative movement a favor and call yourself a libertarian if that is what you are. Always nice to see the free speech defenders out.
YEP!
But I'm sure you won't even bother to acknowledge that I've just been proven right.
How do these dykes decide which uterus to use? Or do they take turns??
Note my comment above.
it is a viable alternative to the current situation and the preferable one.
...the poster was me, and it's a form of rudeness to refer to a poster without pinging them. I'll let that slide given your, well, 'newness' to this forum.
Speaking of posters, Mary Cheney is not by a longshot the poster child for single motherhood.....but you knew that already, didn't you?
? What is that apropos of?
Fascination? I'm commenting about your comments.
And that's not the government...how exactly?
Big state government has shoved this down our throats whether we want it or not.
No, individual rights forced this down your throat. If you didn't want him to have the land so badly, why didn't you pool your resources as a community and buy the land?
You are a poster child for what I was talking about: You are perfectly willing to let Government do something that free markets and communities should do.
Luckily, the strip joint entrepeneur ran out of money.
Wow, free market worked. Who knew?
So anything done in an effort to reduce fatherless children means I get to keep more of my money.
Who cares if the Cheney's have a gazillion dollars? The point is, Mary's decision affects me and you.
Or else we wouldn't be discussing it.
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