When mommy goes off to war, it's rough on kids [sickening]

The Seattle Times ^ | 11/28/06 | Donna St. George

[peggybac]

"Uh, excuse me, but what is a "single mother"? I believe in the old days (before political correctness was enshrined by Liberals) that less-flattering terms were used to describe out-of-wedlock mothers."

I completely agree with you. I hate the term "single mother." If I were divorced or widowed, I'd never refer to myself as a single mother. It makes it sound like there is and was no male ever involved. God, I hate the feminists and the PC language police.

[Antoninus]

It's not about us feeling guilt for her decisions. It's criticism of our society for allowing it. Not an unfair criticism, either. Any society that has unwed mothers going to war has something wrong with it.

We live in a very sick society. Most of Western society is sick, including Israel. I pray every day that the illness isn't terminal. As bad as the West has become, they're still a far cry better than the buzzards out there waiting to feast on the corpse.

[Allegra]

But we are free to decry her decision.

Yes, you are certainly free to be judgmental of others, even though you don't know the whole situation.

I guess when you're perfect, you can sit around and judge others.

[Tzimisce]

...if this woman doesn't want to go, why is she in the military? The Iraq war is older than four years isn't it?

[Rakkasan1]

Mommy wanted into VMI.Mommy should be available for the draft,too if Mommy wants her GI bill.

[wideawake]

Yeah. An Army that should be men.

Do you really believe there are no men in the Army?

Again, if you want to argue that women should be banned from volunteering for military service or that men should be conscripted for military service, go ahead.

We are a nation ruled by pussies.

I see you've moved from melodramatic comments to stupid ones.

Please tell us about your own military service.

[girlangler]

How about unmarried women with sperm donors?

I know a young woman who has had two by the same man, who she has never been married to, and when I speak with her I ask her how her sperm donor is doing.

He is not a father, husband, provider, etc., but simply a sperm donor.

[L98Fiero]

"It's not that men won't go; she VOLUNTEERED to do so. She CHOSE to have children without benefit of marriage; she chose to have them raised by her own mother; she chose to enlist. And this writer is trying to make us feel guilty for this woman's own choices?"

Ding, ding! You win. :)

[dmz]

Single mother does not equal out-of-wedlock mother, ace.

My dad died in 1963. My mom became a single mother. It happens a lot.

[Antoninus]

Yes, you are certainly free to be judgmental of others, even though you don't know the whole situation. I guess when you're perfect, you can sit around and judge others.

Oh, right. Not allowed to hurt anyone's feelings on FR. Since when did we become a load of panty-wearing "non-judgmental" sissies around here?

Based on what is contained in this article, the decisions made by this woman were atrocious and harmful to her kid. If you don't like that opinion, tough.

[Allegra]

Mommy wanted into VMI.Mommy should be available for the draft,too if Mommy wants her GI bill.

I've been away for a while. When did they start the draft up again?

[trisham]

Of her three children, T.J. seemed to worry most... "He went from having one parent to having no parents, basically," Nishimura said, reflecting. "People have said, 'Thank you so much for your sacrifice.' But it's the children who have had more of a sacrifice."

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Good grief. This woman is incomprehensible.

[RexBeach]

Yup. How about what happened to the word "chairman?"

Women are "chairs" and men are also "chairs" of organizations.

Woe unto the person who invokes the word "man."

Oh, brother,er, I mean oh, sister.

[Dick Bachert]

Yep, it's simply a logical (more correctly, ILLOGICAL) conclusion of the feminist movement and its confluence with the feminist war on boys, most of whom have been successfully deballed.

Thank you Bela, Gloria and Betty.

[steve-b]

The Islamists have an economy based on a single resource that will be replaced and depleted within a few decades, and lack the social institutions that will enable them to develop other sources of wealth. Having lots of children at that point will merely cause them to starve faster.

[billbears]

She CHOSE to have children without benefit of marriage

Well good. Shows you read the article...

Her ex-husband paid child support. Still, she only scraped by, with the help of public assistance.

Good to see 'conservatives' still up on their high horses. I was starting to worry..You don't know jack about this woman's situation but still you judge. I don't know why she signed up in the National Guard but I bet when she did she didn't envision going off to fight the war of the purple finger either. Course you can feel comforted..

"I tell [the children] that if God needs Mommy to go ... then Mommy's going to have to go again and they're going to have to let me."

Yep, she's swallowed the nationalism/patriotism/faith line. God told her to go...

[TexasCajun]

And what business does a 'single-mother' of 3 have joining the military?

Isn't a mother's first responsibility to her children?

[Allegra]

What an unmitigated jerk you are.

You should be thankful that your life is so worry-free that you have time to sit around bitching and whining about what other people do.

You're probably one of those busybody neighbors that normal people despise.

You bore me.

[Rakkasan1]

they haven't . my point is if the feminist who force their way into VMI and want to be 'trained fighters' really want equality, they'd demand to be subject to the selective service requirements(IE: the possibilty of being drafted-preferably into all-female units)