Posted on 02/07/2009 2:59:37 PM PST by EveningStar
In her new book, “Guilty,” Ann Coulter committed the major heresy of suggesting that children should ideally be raised by a mother and a father, not by two men or two women or even by one woman. She created a firestorm, as she usually does when she’s releasing a new book, with crowds of single women coming after her with torches and pitchforks and other crowds lining up at Borders and Barnes & Noble.
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If you could go to Juvenile Court, you would see that the vast majority of the kids there are being raised by just a mother. If daddy is around, he is a non factor. This is not limited to the black kids from the bad side of town either. When I worked in Juvenile Court, some of the worst kids were from some nice neighborhoods who had a running feud with the kids in their school from the trailer parks, and these kids were almost all white. They had the same problem as the gang bangers, however, and that was an absent father.
The personal opinion of experience.
This is so true. Single mothers and fathers who are forced by circumstance to raise children alone can do a good job, because they recognize the need for both mother and father figures and work hard to provide them. Single parents (or single sex couples) are determined to convince their children that a parent of the opposite sex is not necessary, and those do not do very well.
I remember one interview where Rosie O’Donnell was making fun of her little son (who was maybe 5 at the time) for saying that he wanted a daddy. She said he’d get over that. I still feel sorry for the boy, even if he did “get over it”.
Saddest thing I've read all day....
Rosie O’Donnell adopted 3 children. They aren’t her natural children.
Very true statement. Being pro-life is far more than being anti-abortion, part of it may include being a mother or father figure for a single mom or dad you know, and providing support (not necessarily financial) along the way.
It sounds like we are on the same page here. Big Brothers and Big Sisters are great programs, and even beyond that is to provide help to a single parent you know. Surrogate parents or grandparents do great things for kids.
I’ve been teaching for 10 years, so I’ve seen about 1,000 kids go through my classroom. That’s a good sized population for analyzing the impact of a fatherless household on a child. Even better, since I’ve worked in small communities, I’ve gotten to see first-hand the family situation of practically every child I’ve taught.
Ann Coulter is correct. The kids I’ve taught from a stable mother-father household tend to do better across the board -behaviorally, emotionally, academically - even when I take into account socioeconomic status. Sadly, I can just about predict fatherlessness in some of my students just by observing the poor behavior, sour attitudes, and bad grades.
Now I’m a decent guy, and I do what I can do as compensation, but either your dad was there or he wasn’t. Since I have a 10-year-old son at home myself, the comparison is even more heartbreaking to witness.
The reason some people get up in arms about this issue is that people making the single parent choice don’t want to be told a truth that they feel in their guts. Instead of bringing those feelings inside and admitting bad behavior, they attack the messenger. I’ve had some students get very angry when told about Coulter’s viewpoint, as if it is a personal insult - which, unfortunately, it is.
Here’s the image which stands out in my mind. You can live without an arm, and even get a prosthesis, but two arms is the norm, and most people want two arms. In the same way you can raise a child with one parent, and even get government aid or a nanny, but a mother and a father are the norm, and most children want both parents.
She literally bought them like so many McDonald's burgers, which is even more disgusting. This twit believes zealously that I belong in jail, as a gun owner, but she has the audacity to literally buy other human beings. That makes her just one step up from a slaveowner, in my book...
the infowarrior
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