TURKEY BASTER METHOD (NEEDLELESS SYRINGE)
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Posted on 12/08/2006 8:31:16 PM PST by rakovskii
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.
Janice Shaw Crouse, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute, a culturally conservative think tank for Concerned Women for America, is a recognized authority on domestic issues, the United Nations, cultural and women’s concerns.
So?
Gays existed long before Marx.
I'm not impressed by your pasting skills.
Again, 100% right. As a 37 year old, I know first hand as well. And, I know that with each passing year, the odds continue to sharply decline- and not in my favor.
Parents who do that near the bedroom of their children are not good parents. I stipulate to that. How many gays who have kids in their homes do that in the room next door, or just in the hallway outside, is the next question, and is it a higher percentage than of heteros? I have yet another request for creditable data. So many assertions, and no damn creditable peer reviewed data, I hate when that happens!
So anything that people want to do is okay with you then right?
Beastiality would be okay. After all it's a private thing. People should be able to do what they want.
Adopting and abusing children would be okay. After all there are lots of things you can do that won't show up, and it is within the new family. No problem there...
It would be interesting to know just what you'd be willing to tolerate as long as it took place in the family setting. We've already seen that you don't mind if flaming homosexuals hold orgies in the presence of children? What else don't you mind?
Good point!
Fallacy. You are talking about a criminal act of imprisonment and abuse. I could use the same logic to claim that homeschooling kids to be ignorant is abuse.
Post of the Day!!!!
I'm about to have an adult beverage myself...
But really...check out post #188...norge is very inspirational! Puts the rest of this lot in perspective!!
It wasn't Groucho's fault. He was hetero.
Not only that, almost every story you see of an abused child or even a dead child, it is without fail the father or boy friend of the mother that does the deed.
As many of these as I have read, for the life of me I can't recall hearing of one GAY couple having the same situation in their homes.
I stand by my post, I think that Haggard is a hypocrite. I think that with an open mind based upon the fact that he lived a lie and lied to his wife and messed up his kids.
Nothing close minded about that fact, Haggard is a hypocrite, as are his followers that are still in denial about it.
You bring up some good points. As I have said - lots of people who probably shouldn't have children - do. And they are free to. What isn't happening in the case of welfare mom's is for those women (and men) to experience the consequences of their choices.
I have no idea what the statistics are but I suspect there are an awful lot of people having children for selfish reasons or other less than admirable reasons.
I read it.
I'm going to have to go with some of you on this thread: I now have five grandchildren under six years of age; if one of them is gay, I will love them just as much as I do this very minute.
Of course, it would break my heart that they will have to deal with people like some of the posters on this thread.
What made Augustus ( once he put by OCTAVIAN ) institute the marriage and moral laws?
Puritan, used to invoke prudery, is a complete falsehood!
Gay parenting is already a done deal. Get used to it.
There are many norge like stories on FR. Heck, many freepers have that same norge story! But the hollier-than-thou crowd would rather believe that these 'success' stories are rare and are exceptions to the rule.
For someone who is pro-free thought, you certainly do trot out the tired, cynical lefty cliches.
See, you have everything categorized. A crime you say! Isn't blasphemy a crime? Is your world view merely dictated by civil authority? Are you a slave? An automaton?
I remember a show about the Fatty Arbuckle scandal, I think it was. Somehow, homosexuality was involved. Someone commented on the mores of the time - "Homosexuality was worse than anything - worse than murder." That always impressed me. Everything is up in the air.
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