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.
I'm usually not critical of such, as I find myself guilty of the "crime" every now and then. :) All that other stuff is pure sophistry.
God didn't create sin.
It's not a litmus test. It's a definition. Words have meanings.
I've been to the beaches in the middle east (Hurghada, Egypt) where the women were covered head to toe and in flowing capes.
It was bloody stupid and impractical, let alone degrading to the women.
It's not really playing God. It is however being an incredibly sanctimonious pain in the ass.
"Before you attend to the mote in your neighbors eye, attend to the beam in thine own."
I forget who said that, but I'm pretty sure it was somebody important.
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What I posted, that you are taking umbrage with, is also 100% true and completely factual. I neither made it up, nor embellish the facts.
I've seen a movement towards less freedom.....smoking Nazis
That is the truth.
All considered, I liked the closets, civilized, useful items that rather screened politely than concealed. Discretion and courtesy is such the better way.
BFD, thank you Rush Limbaugh. I am what I say I am, not what you say I am. Conservatism is a big tent, get used to it, or get used to becoming marginalized and losing elections.
Once again you miss the point, intentionally or you have some reading problems.
Bestiality is testing the limits of your theory of no govt interference in private business.
Haggard is a adulteror, gay and disgraced when revealed about his identity. This has nothing to do with the issue of gay couples intentionally getting pregant and raising children. Nobody is denying there are heterosexual parents who do a poor job of raising their children, that does not mean Gay parenting should be encouraged. Two wrongs dont make it right.
You said you wont discuss bestiality as it is illegal and therefore irrelevant, ok fair enough , so that means your line of no govt intervention applies to only legal behaviour.
So a hypothetical question was put to you, will you still support gay parenting if it is illegal, you cannot or dont want to answer it and instead deflecting the arguments.
As for you comparing Saudi Arabia to America, get real, you are pushing your arguments to the ridiculous extreme and not sticking to the topic of this thread.
Exactly. Sin doesn't have to be acted out, to be sin. Sin can be in the heart and in the mind. Sometimes you can appear to the rest of the world to live a peerless life, but only you and Him know what lies in your heart and in your mind.
I have seen it reported in various places that the domestic violence rate among lesbian couples is much higher than the national average. They tend to beat the crap out of each other.
I am neither a Nazi nor a "Mr." and Mary Cheney would never ask you advice about anything at all.
Good point. And hopefully that will backfire - as will the banning of transfats or whatever else the social engineers come up with - and that includes attempts to determine who can and who cannot have children.
The Lord did, in his Sermon on the Mount, on the habit of speaking ill of others which is a great evil and temptation. The Lord strictly forbids judging
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye" (Matthew 7:1-5).
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Even on Capitol Hill of all places.
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