Posted on 12/08/2006 8:31:16 PM PST by rakovskii
Mary Cheneys 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 dont 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 childs 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 dont have the role models at home to teach them how to deal with adversity and handle responsibility. Theyve 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 Cheneys 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 fathers influence.
Marys pregnancy is an in-your-face action countering the Bush Administrations 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 womens concerns.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Fatty was actually acquitted.
I am beginning to think that I need to set up a Paypal account and start charging for all of the history and now biology lessons I post to GR. LOL, LOL, LOL
I am beginning to think that I need to set up a Paypal account and start charging for all of the history and now biology lessons I post to FR. LOL, LOL, LOL
It's only a "canard" because you cannot refute it.
I don't agree with you, but I just wanted to say I really appreciate the civil discourse.
I have gay friends who are parents, and I understand your concerns.
Thanks for being here and maintaining a good dialogue! I really appreciate it!!
(off to bed)
My point was valid. I'm not inclined to trip the light fantastic with your colorful renditions of history.
ROTFLOL......yes, it is!
Not a canard, and a fallacious argument on your part, if my house is on fire, the fire department comes and puts it out, that is what my tax dollars are for.
You are comparing apples to oranges in a desperate attempt to steer away from the main argument, please focus on the subject at hand.
Let me guess: according to some, it's not the same, right, when, of course, it is precisely the same.
Then why don't you provide the stats instead of making suppositions for which there is no basis in fact to this point.
I hear ya. Some people equate cruelty and intolerance with conservatives and you can see why from some of these threads.
What is encouraging is that regardless of the volume of the purists and they do like to raise the volume on issues like this - the country as a whole is moving toward more love and more kindness, as well as more responsiblity. Some of these people must never get out :-) I fear that they really have no idea how out of touch they.
Actually, in a republican democracy, the people do have a right and an obligation to interest themselves in any issue that they believe will significantly affect themselves and their children. They have a right and an obligation to form opinions about the issues and to press their representatives to put relevant issues to a vote.
The abortion issue is one issue that simply will not die, because it was handed down to us by the Imperial Supreme Court acting as an oligarchy. That is why so many citizens want the issue of gay marriage to be put to a vote -- because they do not want the courts deciding how they must live and whether they will be labeled "bigots" for exercising their First Amendment right to believe in the Christian religion and its teachings about marriage and sexuality as Americans have done since its founding.
LOL - yes I saw one from some guy on another thread who talked about the *masters* of the house. Wow! I feel for the women in some of these men's lives!
Thank you Paulat. Good night.
They've never heard of the once very popular series of HORATIO ALGER stories. For most here, history or life only began in 1953, or thereabouts and 1953 as they imagine it was; not as it REALLY was.
It is the easy way out to throw groups of people in a convenient little bucket and label them all with the same foolish crap. Remember... all republicans are racist. All liberals are tree huggers. All Christians are hate mongers. All Muslims are murderers.
By promoting the dialectic of 'negative' criticism, that is, pointing out the rational contradictions in a society's belief system, the Frankfurt School 'revolutionaries' dreamed of a utopia where their rules governed [4]. "Their Critical Theory had to contain a strongly imaginative, even utopian strain, which transcends the limits of reality." Its tenets would never be subject to experimental evidence. The pure logic of their thoughts would be incontrovertible. As a precursor to today's 'postmodernism' in the intellectual academic community, [5] "...it recognized that disinterested scientific research was impossible in a society in which men were themselves not yet autonomous...the researcher was always part of the social object he was attempting to study." This, of course, is the concept which led to the current fetish for the rewriting of history, and the vogue for our universities' law, English literature, and humanities disciplines -- deconstruction.
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If you could read you would have seen that I prefaced my advice by stating that "if" she asked me for advice this is what I would blah blah blah.
I did not presume to be a better parent just because I'm 15 years older and have five children. I am in a better situation that she is in (wouldn't mind being 15 years younger though).
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