Posted on 12/07/2006 7:16:54 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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.
Falwell's comments belong to him, Robertson's words belong to him.
My words belong to me.
Post 92 belongs to me as well, not Falwell, or Robertson; I am not yoked to them. So what say you?
....and let me add that you should thank your lucky stars that you live in a society where your views aren't an automatic death sentence. You don't get it, do you?
Well, what's the point of #92 in relation to this thread? Are you saying our enemies perceive us as weak because Mary Cheney is pregnant?
It's small piece of the overall puzzle. Please remember that drjimmy made the statement that I responded to.
Disingenuity will get you nowhere fast, that I promise.
I do indeed, and my family has prized that about this country for the nearly three hundred years we have been here. My views are not permitted to me by you; they're outside your control. And I'm by no means alone.
I have been here for some time, interested in conservative values in government containment and fiscal responsibility. I have never disguised the fact that most social conservative issues are not a reason to have Big Government. Sorry if that bothers you, and sorry if it bothers you that several people agree with me.
Rome had its patrician families. Not impressed.
My views are not permitted to me by you; they're outside your control. And I'm by no means alone.
That was precisely the point. You can live in your present state of denial, but America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and I have a feeling that is why your family has flourished for 300 years. I doubt Mohammed would be as kind.
I have been here for some time, interested in conservative values in government containment and fiscal responsibility.
Right.....but you conveniently leave out liberal mores as part of the package.
Sorry if that bothers you, and sorry if it bothers you that several people agree with me.
...oddly enough, the only thing I hear is crickets at the moment. I hope your friends haven't abandoned you.
I completely agree... but I can't figure out the seeming obsession of many Freepers w/ a woman who does not hold public office and who (so far) is not making a big public deal of the matter.
Let me ask you something, then. Since you're so unhappy about Ms. Cheney's decision, what do you propose should be done about it?
She is extremely selfish.
1: She will be bearing a child out of wedlock.
2: She will be raising a child in an unwholesome environment, with another woman. There will be no father figure.
3: She was likely responsible for destroying embryos.
Not to mention the anguish she is causing for her mother and father...
The only way this baby affects me is if they hit me up for a baby shower gift.
Nope, you're transparent, linda! Cheerleading for the homosexual agenda and any kind of moral relativity [sic] as usual, and then, as usual, waffling about it!
Carry on!
Don't say (sic), you spelled it right, Jeri! :)
Who has said anything about using gov't, Big or otherwise in this case?
Stop beating up strawmen.
My views are not permitted to me by you; they're outside your control.
We'd tell you the same thing. Don't we have the same right to expres our views, mainly that this is lamentable?
Certainly you can. :)
moral relativism is extremely lamentable.
Yes, the fact that homosexuals are also adopting and being foster parents and often given preference over normal married couples means squat. Nothing. Even though there is overwhelming evidence that children raised by homosexuals have many more problems (drugs, misbehavior, school problems, "gender identity" problems, promiscuity problems) than other kids.
Tne normalization of homosexuality, what to speak of its promotion, affects everyone who lives in such a culture. If you don't see that you are either singularly ill-informed and don't read up on FR, or think it's a good thing.
It doesn't include stoning; is that satisfactory?
You REALLY have your panties in a knot over (the fact that people consider the normalization of homosexuality not a good thing) this, don't you?
She is extremely selfish.
1: She will be bearing a child out of wedlock.
2: She will be raising a child in an unwholesome environment, with another woman. There will be no father figure.
3: She was likely responsible for destroying embryos.
Not to mention the anguish she is causing for her mother and father...
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