Posted on 04/10/2003 3:32:48 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
In a feature story in Tuesday's USA Today, Family Research Council's Dr. Allan C. Carlson said that the cost of sending tens of thousands of mothers to the battlefield is too great for our nation's children. "We've let an ideological drive to achieve perfect equality get in the way of common sense. No other nation has ever put so many women in combat or near-combat, and children are paying the price," he said. A prolific author, policy expert, and historian, Dr. Carlson is the Distinguished Fellow for Family Policy Studies at Family Research Council.
Pentagon numbers show that the amount of single parents in the military has almost doubled in size since 1992 to almost 90,000 today. Over half of the military's 200,000 women are mothers, many of them near the combat front lines.
"The strong and normal human instinct is to protect infants, toddlers, and their mothers," Dr. Carlson said. "Indeed, their wellbeing and security form the central purposes of every healthy nation. How did America get so out-of-sync with human nature and the lessons of human history?"
Dr. Carlson recounted how the 1970's convergence of the feminist movement and a manpower crunch in the armed services caused a boom of women entering the military, so that by 1980, the U.S. led the world in this category. In the 1990's, the Clinton administration eliminated key rules that had protected women from proximity to combat.
"The costs of this great social experiment have yet to be counted," Dr. Carlson said. "Social science research shows that young children effectively abandoned by their mothers for lengthy periods are much more likely to suffer emotional and mental disorders, more likely in later life to be in trouble with the law and abuse drugs, and less likely to succeed in school than children with their mothers available. Grandparents, day care centers, and even fathers cannot replace the unique parenting role of a mother."
Carlson urged President Bush to appoint a special Presidential Commission on Mothers in the Military Service to analyze the historical and anthropological records regarding the treatment of motherhood in times of war. This Commission would study the effects of mother-absence on small children, calculating the real social costs as well examine the military benefit system, to see if it actually creates incentives to out-of-wedlock births. "We must honestly measure the effects of pregnancy and maternity on military deployment and unit effectiveness," Dr. Carlson said. "America should protect the basic human rights of mothers and children...from foreign enemies and domestic ideologues alike."
The traditional or conservative approach of all civilizations has been to protect women and children. The women bore and nurtured children, training and educating them. Children carried on culture and virtues they were taught.
Placing women in harm's way undermines the foundation of civilization. The fact that we have is a further indicator that we do not value the transmission of culture and virtue. It appears that you are the by-product of that decline in civilization.
If you do not sense the visceral distaste of putting a mother of a baby in a front line role, you do not deserve to be associated with in polite society. And I would attest that Churchill, Robert E. Lee and George Patton would concur with my assessment.
We descend below the moral level of Israelites from 3000 years ago who excluded from war even FATHERS who had small child or were newly wed. Example:
When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. (Deu:24:5)
And we send single mother of small children because we are to stingy to pay for her job training unless she enlists(she wanted to be a cook). This is an abomination before the Lord.
Free market fundamentalists are not conservative, they are idolatrous worshipers of god Mammon and they are gnawing at the fundations of Western civilisation. They are not better than the Commies.
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So long as the physical requirements are germane to the the branch of service. I don't see much need for pilots, for example, to hump 100 pound packs on 20 mile forced marches (although I'm sure there are women out there who could do that). They do need to be small enough to fit into the cockpit, have fast reactions and good vision.
I'll wager this fellow is doing just fine. ___ He may be. But he sure limited himself from a lot of opportunities. Meanwhile, many women are doing just fine as well.
I have never worked for a woman and I never will. ___ Probably for the best for all concerned. :)
I make it a point to avoid doing business with married women who have careers outside of the home. Don't preach to me about the less than 1% of women who work out of necessity. The reality that they have elective careers is enough for me. If they loved their families more than their own self-fulfillment, they wouldn't be in a second career... they would be home where they belong.
He consciously goes out of his way to be an ass in one paleo category, there's bound to be others.
Why not? Too gutless?
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Palp - bet you didn't pass the 6th grade. Let me guess, your from the DNC and grovel for the feminists.
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