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.
That's not hypocrisy, that's "playing God".
OK, but I say that, to be consistant with the arguments relayed here, that God erred by allowing free will, because that allows sin, doesn't it?
And God, being perfect, shouldn't be creating something imperfect (sin), because it makes him imperfect.
Now I understand.
"I perfer to think..."
Couldn't argue with that. Later...
Hey!!!! LOL
Good night.
con·ser·va·tive Pronunciation (kn-sûrv-tv)
adj.
1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.
2. Traditional or restrained in style: a conservative dark suit.
3. Moderate; cautious: a conservative estimate.
No not your fault, if I die, that's just life isn't it.
BTW, I love asparagus, but don't eat beef.
Thanks for the arguments. Good night.
Never, NOT EVER, has homosexuality/homosexuals been connected to the Arbuckle case! I don't care WHAT you imagine you heard, you didn't. I've seen every single show about this case, read several books about it, and know this subject well. It is completely irrelevant to the thread's topic!
"I prefer to think that, as a society, we are moving forward."
History shows that technology advances and human character remains constant with all sorts of trends that go in cycles.
Today there are plenty of beaches where women are covered from head to toe. Check out some of the Middle East beaches. Go back in time to say, the Don River in 1600 and you would have seen women coming out of the water completely naked and running back to their abodes. Source: Massie PETER THE GREAT
If you are talking about welfare - welfare has become unpopular. If you are talking about something else - what is it?
Look, we limit personal behaviors across the board based on societal concerns.
Personal behavioral limits hopefully have to do with consciously harming others - assault, theft, fraud etc. There is no freedom to consciously harm. However - we are still the freest nation on the planet and I don't see any movement toward less freedom and more social engineering.
People do not want the government or other people telling them how to live their lives.
Yes because you didn't give me flowers first!!!! Always remember the flowers and even the dinner you made me gag over will not be your fault. :)
Children brought into the world are innocent and pure, but once they get immersed into society and absorb all the rotgut into society, they have opened themselves up to temptation and sin.
Jesus, The Perfect One, was tempted in the garden by Satan, but He rejected it, and since He rejected Satan and his temptations, He remained The Perfect One.
Well I guess according to my definition "hypocrisy" means saying one thing and then doing the opposite.
I'm reminded again of a quote I have often cited:
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, selfishness is wanting others to live as one wishes to live"
Oscar Wilde
regards,
djf
I agree, I also agree that I alone am the arbiter of whether I call myself Conservative or not. We had a bill in AZ that failed, they wanted to define what marriage is, and they made the mistake of discriminating against couples living together. Marriage is a concept based on a (historically) church based piece of paper.
Fine. That is not a reason to accept deviate or destructive changes that are not the norm just because a few voiciferous ones want it.
Should I turn it around and ask for "proof" that homosexual adoption or lifestyle "is the norm"? As the cultural destroyer would say, "define norm, prove it".
OTOH, you are swiftly becoming a poster child for the stereotypical caricature of a right winger.
Right. For example, Ted Haggard is a hypocrite for denouncing the gay lifestyle at the altar, while practicing it in his free time.
Quite a sentence, that. Myself, I will just parse life as I see it, and as the creditable data reveals it. Cultures by way, have a host of different mores, and have had. It has been a veritable pluralistic feast, at least in the public square as the societal norm of good behavior. What goes on behind the scenes, probably has been less variegated. I might as well bring in the heavy artillery now, on this one. Do you have an opinion on anything that has been said on this thread antiguv?
Guess what Kozak? I don't live by your or anyone else's litmus test regarding what a conservative is.
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