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.
These are probably the same men who preach mail order or Asian brides.
No, beastiality is not germane.
Please show me data using multiple regression analysis regarding beastiality, homosexuality, heterosexuality, marriage, child and spousal abuse and the divorce rate.
Use 2 standard deviations and run a T test.
Bringing up beastiality is a completly non starter to this issue and is nothing than you attempting to use causality in lieu of actual statistics.
You know better.
And I don't approve of bestiality, nor do I appreciate your insinuation that I do.
Again, another personal attack.
You know better.
Ah, you will be roundly mocked on this forum for having the nerve to say such things publicly, even though it's the truth. Some of these people want to drag us back to the 30's and 40's!
Some of these people must never get out :-) I fear that they really have no idea how out of touch they.
I always wonder about the people in some of these poster's "real lives." *Shudder*
Huh? If God prevented it, there would be no free will.
And she was raised by *gasp* a father and a mother! Oh the humanity of it all!
Guess again.
I just happened to review this line from Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy: ( from memory, I don't have it at hand )
"Nobody could ever make me believe I'm a slave."
"Ten lashes is enough to convince anybody."
This is at the end when Our Hero is explaining the Facts of the Galaxy to a denizen of the insular home planet. Nice allegory, what?
I don't think you quite got what I was posting.
Are you serious? And here I thought calling it a "mental disorder" was the worst thing I could read on FR about this subject!
The sad thing is that when I do, you will dismiss it. You know that, and I know that, because you have hard wiring presuppositions on this matter. That is true isn't it? Be honest. I believe you to be an honest man.
And I guess Communism didn't fall in the USSR, and Red China didn't change from a controlled- to a market-based economy, and England didn't renounce its Empire, and architects are still building Frank Lloyd Wright-style homes for the mass market, and Atlantis is still very much with us....
No, I did. Really. I was making a general statement.
God allows free will, so its His fault...
Yes, I guess us poor diluded fools should be thrilled to know that by opening the door for people like the Cheney's daughter, we will be opening the door for all homosexuals from every lifestyle. And the children that will be exposed to that are little widgets of no value and should be ignored for the good of society at large.
My you sure are enlightened. LOL...
This thread is sounding a lot like DU.
OK, no problemo.
Just trying to make sure.
No harm, no foul. :)
And I would love to hear how you think stopping an individuals reproductive rights would go over in the USA.
Are you afraid that someone is going to "make you gay"?
If not, why the hell is it any of your business what other people do in private relationships? Its not, go and lead a happy life as you choose and don't infringe on the rights of others.
There was absolutely NOTHINGabout that case that was in any way connected with homosexuality!
If only people would refrain from posting about things they knew nothing about, FR would not be so damned cluttered with errors, lies, and complete nonsense!
I have no doubt. And I'm sure that you would rather have had your missing parent around.
Lord, I can't tell you how much I miss having a father. Even after all these years there's a hole in my life that will never be filled, even though I can't remember much about him.
But God is and has beeen gracious. And don't say that superficially.
Jeez, some people have a lot of trouble with anyone who is different than they are. They cannot grasp the idea that all people have 100% value. And so if they are men - they believe they are *better than* women because women are different than them and they don't know how to deal with that. And they think that those of a different color than they are are *lesser than* because they don't know how to deal with difference. Same with homosexuals. Homosexuals are different and therefore - they want to destroy them or shame them or call them all kinds of names and blame them for problems that they have nothing to do with.
It is all very immature.
The point is still that there are some behaviors that you agree would be outside of acceptance. That being the case, your arguement that I have no vested interest in what takes place in other people's homes is the real non-starter.
If you can't grasp that, that's okay with me.
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