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Mary Cheney's Pregnancy Affects Us All
Townhall ^ | December 7, 2006 | Janice Shaw Crouse PhD, Concerned Women for America

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: antifamily; antifamilyvalues; cheney; fatherlesschild; gay; heterosexualagenda; homosexual; homosexualagenda; marycheney; pregnancy
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To: Albion Wilde
The reality for you to get over is: traditional Christian heterosexual parents are the vast majority of U.S. parents, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.

What does that have to do with the fact that gays have children? There are far more heterosexuals than homosexuals. So it is, hopefully, obvious that the majority of parents in the US will be heterosexual. It is also a fact that many of them (the heterosexuals) will be lousy to really bad parents.

But that does not change the fact that gays are here to stay and they have kids and they raise them. You can condemn the idea all you want to - but it will not change the reality.

541 posted on 12/09/2006 2:18:49 AM PST by Sunsong
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To: Tarnsman
How about everyone been happy for the Vice President that he has a grandchild on the way

Hey there's a thought. I'm sure VP Cheney was sure he would never have grandkids. Now he's been blessed with one.

But why not rip on the lesbians. It's far more fun to violate a couple of Gods laws regarding judging others so we can all feel much more Godly and superior than those nasty sinners.

And people wonder why I stay away from Churches....

L

542 posted on 12/09/2006 2:19:08 AM PST by Lurker (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
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To: Howlin
It's only a "canard" because you cannot refute it.

My post amply refuted it. Your posts fancy themselves Oscar Wilde. It's time for you to put your citation links where your mouth is.

543 posted on 12/09/2006 2:19:28 AM PST by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: TraditionalistMommy
You've been here all of two whole days. Frankly, I doubt you'll last here much longer.

What do you want us all to do....drag Cheney out of her home and stone her to death? How about burning her at the stake? Perhaps putting her in the stocks and pelting her with rotten veggies is something to your liking.

America's cultural moral decline, and yes, there certainly has been one, is not Mary Cheney's fault and began long before she was born. So, just WHAT did YOU ever do to stop it in its tracks?

544 posted on 12/09/2006 2:20:53 AM PST by nopardons
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To: rakovskii

Mary Cheney's Pregnancy Affects Us All





Uh no, it really doesn't.


545 posted on 12/09/2006 2:21:06 AM PST by durasell (!)
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To: djf

Too much, too much to bear... Nothing adequate can be said which can ease your pain and loss. You cannot replace the three human losses nor can you easily replace Max, your truest and dearest friend.

But I believe there are wonderful dogs out there, lost or abandonned or relinquished to an institution, one of whom needs you desperately and is destined for you. Go search starting tomorrow, djf. You will know the one I mean when you look into her eyes and your souls connect. {Not a puppy, an adult dog.} She can start the long healing process.


546 posted on 12/09/2006 2:23:21 AM PST by Et in Arcadia Ego
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To: Tarnsman

I agree with you completely! :-)


547 posted on 12/09/2006 2:23:39 AM PST by nopardons
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To: MindBender26
Admittedly, I don't know much about Haggard. After all the comments I've read on this forum, I thought I had a good idea. I was wrong. He actually took responsibility, didn't place the blame with everyone but himself and faced up to his problems.

He's a hypocrite, but issued one of the better confessions I have read.

gazette.com

PS, did the gay uber-minister from Colorado Springs "confess" before or after the elections?

Apparently a day or two before the election.

PPS, His gay escort and their meth sessions together?

Yeah, I seen the accusations but didn't see the confession or evidence of it. Not saying I don't believe you though.

Only their leadership's "proud" statements.

I couldn't find anything to support that but did find this article. Seems like it may have had more to do with global warming than the homosexual issue.
548 posted on 12/09/2006 2:30:36 AM PST by loboinok (Gun control is hitting what you aim at!)
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To: rintense
And I would love to hear how you think stopping an individuals reproductive rights would go over in the USA.

I do not believe in any such thing. There certainly are some flying leaps on this thread!

I have studied the subject for a dozen years, and I believe it is a social issue that must be solved in many ways, including education and an end to the bigoted condemnation of religious scruples in this area and the politically correct, deliberate suppression of the substantial evidence of the downside to homosexual behavior in terms of physical and mental health, longevity and parent/child issues. But coercion is not effective. Prohibition showed us the futility of legislating morality.

549 posted on 12/09/2006 2:31:28 AM PST by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: djf
I am so sorry for your losses - and your most recent one I'm sure hurts a lot right now. I will keep you in my prayers that you are comforted and that you can in some small ways allow the comfort in.

It is painful to lose love - perhaps it is the worst pain of all. I hope that you allow yourself to grieve. It actually helps. That may not make sense - but I know it to be true from my own experience.

And I'm sure you know at some level that God loves you more than you will ever be able to understand or let in. It's ok if you don't want the connection right now. I just say it as a reminder.

550 posted on 12/09/2006 2:31:39 AM PST by Sunsong
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To: Cobra64

I remember an America where people actually did mind their own business...


551 posted on 12/09/2006 2:38:06 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: nopardons
I used NO "anecdotes"; I posted factual history.....try reading some. I will happily supply you with a book list. :-

The word "anecdotes" in this sense means "case histories" or "true stories"-- even if the anecdotes are true, they are not necessarily representative of the larger trends in a group of people such as the nation of the USA. A valid study has to have a large sample of people, a representative cross-section of society, be conducted scrupulously, and have equally scrupulous data analysis. Even then, the conclusions are tentative until the study is replicated more than once. Knowing some gay people is not a representative study.

552 posted on 12/09/2006 2:43:54 AM PST by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: Central Scrutiniser
You think children will be exposed to detrimental situations as a result of homosexual adoption, ok, fine, that is your opinion, but I fail to see the similar outrage for kids adopted into a male/female household that is abusive.

Good lord, man, what rock have you been hiding under? There are scads of abuse stories in every news source -- people in Maine get to hear about a case of abuse in Oregon, and vice versa. It's on every talk show. Oprah makes it a particular concern, as do many other talk hosts, from Dr. Phil to Jerry Springer. You just like to argue; doesn't matter if you have anything accurate to say. Try to edit yourself to what you know you know; not just what you wish were true.

553 posted on 12/09/2006 2:48:42 AM PST by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: nopardons
My question is quite relevant and not at all "hysterical" in any of the meanings of that word.

See post 549.

554 posted on 12/09/2006 3:11:28 AM PST by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: Sunsong
But that does not change the fact that gays are here to stay and they have kids and they raise them. You can condemn the idea all you want to - but it will not change the reality.

The first step to solving a problem is to identify it. The gay lifestyle is not the core of the problem in our society -- it is a symptom. I'm the one who did the graduate thesis on marriage and society, who has the yards-long bibliography; yet posters here seem to believe that if I think gay parenting is a bad idea for the children involved, I can't possibly have given the matter any thought and am simply a bigot. That is pitiable. I've given the matter a ton of thought, research and effort. I've been an employer of gays and an AIDS caregiver. And although I started out believing much as you do, the actual research convinced me otherwise. That is the meaning of education, is it not?

555 posted on 12/09/2006 3:18:17 AM PST by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Wow! That's all I can say that so many here think gay couples raising children is a big 'yawner', i.e. 'no big deal'. That's very scary. We are really screwed as a country.


556 posted on 12/09/2006 3:43:53 AM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: rakovskii
You are absolutely correct. Homosexuality is a choice and is clearly abnormal. There is no empirical evidence that exists to support the myth that it is normal.

I truly feel sorry for the child.

Oh and by the way it is our business regardless of what some people say on this thread. When certain school districts are teaching young children that this chosen lifestyle is normal it damn well is our business.
557 posted on 12/09/2006 3:47:06 AM PST by saneright
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To: My GOP

You're right; its nobody's business. The MSM is only making a big deal out of Mary's pregnancy in order to weaken the Republican Party. Is this not obvious? The dims are total hypocrites outing gay Republicans and attacking gay/lesbian children of Republicans. Mary, congratulations! I wish you and your child the very best!


558 posted on 12/09/2006 3:59:44 AM PST by darth
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To: Albion Wilde
From your home page...

“In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.”
—Natan Sharansky

I can't believe how many fools and idiots there are here. Liberals usually have the dysfunctional thinking of using one or two 'good' examples as a justification for a broad based policy or accepted behavior.

559 posted on 12/09/2006 4:03:21 AM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: PzLdr
"I believe whatever the American psychiatric professional group was called did back when. That position was held by the group until they elected a closet gay honcho who got a board of fellow gay and fellow traveler shrinks to reverse it. That happened no earlier than the 1960s, and, I believe, no later than the '80s."


I read an article several years ago written by a doctor who was a member of the American psychiatric group when homosexuality was changed from being a disorder to being "normal". He claimed that the change was the result of two things. One was that some queers got into positions of authority within the group and exerted influence over the more passive members of the group. The second reason was that everyone felt sorry for the queers because of the abuse they faced in society. The author of the article did not agree with this change and left the group shortly thereafter.

Sorry I cannot remember the doctor's name. I am sure if you surf the web you could probably find information regarding the politicizing of this issue.

The mere fact that so may people in our country accept this nonsense as normal shows how far our culture has declined. What's worse is that they like to call themselves "progressives". A society who accepts two women who strap dildos around themselves and call themselves a loving couple is a society in that is in trouble.
560 posted on 12/09/2006 4:13:12 AM PST by saneright
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