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So I feel sorry for the students whose parents would keep them from attending my classes or the University of Texas because of what I wrote. Don't you have faith that your children can think for themselves? Don't you trust them with a range of positions and approaches to knowledge? Haven't you prepared them to defend your family's values?

By this comment, I would guess you meant me. (I don't know who else said they would keep their kids from UT. I haven't gone back to read the rest of the comments on that thread.)

I have all the faith in the world in my kids. However, would you knowingly allow your toddler to play with matches, knowing what would happen? Of course not. Why then would you allow them to be corrupted morally? My job on this earth is to raise my children and to teach them. I am a single mom (divorced, not out of wedlock.) I read over the post made with your stance on abortion and it saddens me. I feel more sorry for the child you aborted than you should feel for my children. When do you reach the point of knowing you have enough money or maturity to have children? Raising my children is a struggle, but what isn't? Even if I knew that I would divorce after having my children, I would do it all again. My children are my joy.

I only have two kids. I was talking to a friend of mine who has 5 (she just miscarried #6 and it devastated her.) She said 5 kids keep her busy, but that two probably keep me real busy, don't they? (They do.) Another friend of ours only has one and HE keeps her real busy. My point? Kids are work no matter what.

You mentioned standing up for the poor maquiladoras, etc. I cannot believe you feel no shame in not protecting the most tiny, precious, and innocent of all beings.

I raised my granddaughter as a single grandmother and it was also a struggle. No sweeter child existed until puberty set in.

She made me nuts, had lousey education in CA. Fought with me about reading, my incessant telling her of things schools no longer teach, her responsibilities in life, her needing to be able to support herself as an adult, and my insisting on knowing of her whereabouts and friends at all times.

She gave me fits, sleeplessness and hives. I worked full time so I bought her a horse to take care of. She loved that animal and it did teach her responsibility.

She is now 27, married to a great guy and she is really terrific. She is a no nonsense kind of gal with a really great sense of humor, and fun to be around. She is competitive and competes in Saddle Seat horse shows nationally.

She is more conservative than I am and far more economically savvy than I was at her age. I look at her in amazement! I listen to her views and am tickled pink. She spouts things that she learned from me and my incessant teaching and really doesn't know where she learned that. It makes me so happy and gratefull that she has turned out to be someone I admire.