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.
I agree. But unfortunately, I'm seeing many FReepers who think "Heather has two Mommies" is none of my business, and some go so far as to believe this is wonderful!
My attack was only after I had already proven him wrong. I was just egging him on because it's fun.
If you can refute one of my points, feel free. He certainly can't.
he was talking about the "morality" of Jefferson
I pointed out that Jefferson was himself responsible for fatherless children, so either he was an immoral deadbeat or he didn't view the father as being nessecary
take your pick. either way, his comments show his disregard of facts
I'll go on record as saying that the moment the Muzzies try to enslave our women and children, I'll be shooting at them. You can take that to the bank.
Yah, because, clearly, kids always grow up to do just what their parents tell them. /sarcasm
You're the one who debuted on this thread with the asinie argument that everything said herein must be considered a political argument for gov't action.
Don't cry when I turn your own stupid statement around for my own amusement.
this is a political forum. either you want the government, the politicians to outlaw it or you want them to leave it alone
take your pick
do you want the government to regulate who can have kids, so your pocketbook isn't affected? or do you want to let people live their life the way they wish as long as they are not hurting others?
Am I on Free Republic here??? or Dummie Underground?
I see it as a slap in the face to her father and to this Administration. She could have waited until her father was out of office.
how? in what way does society have ANY right whatsoever to tell Mary Cheney she can or cannot have a daughter?
please explain that. This is between Mary, her family and God.
Just this final thought:
Linda described herself as a liberitine:
"A person who is unconstrained by convention or morality; specifically one leading a dissolute life."
Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary c.1965
Or:
"A man (rarely a woman) who is not restrained by moral law; one who leads a licentious life.
Acknowledging no law in religion or morals;...
Loose in morals,; licentious, dissolute..."
The Oxford Universal Dictionary c. 1961
That's what my dictionaries say.
Some people are proud of this.
They did not prove that Thomas Jefferson was the daddy beyond a reasonable doubt. They proved a Jefferson was the daddy. And there were a few amorous relatives around at the time who could also have fathered the Hemings' children.
I believe that T. Jefferson was the father, but that's just my feeling after visiting Monticello and reading a bit on the subject. My favorite professor, Forrest McDonald, believes T. did not father any of Sally Hemings' children. And he can't stand Jefferson! Jefferson was executor of several wills of slaveowners. It was the will of these folks that their slaves be freed upon their (the slaveowners) deaths. Jefferson did not free those slaves. His will provided that select slaves be freed upon his death.
Islamic nutjobs all over the globe are waging war on the West; for my part, if they attempt an incursion in my neighborhood, they'll get a third eye.
:sigh: I can't figure out if you are actually as clueless as you seem, or if you are just doing it to annoy me.
There is big "P" Political, which encompasses everything that the Government does.
Then, there is a division of powers, where we have the legislature do "political" things (you can replace the word "political" here with "policy" if that helps you), and the courts deal with "legal" things.
It's pretty clear the discussion of Mary Cheney's kid is big "P" Political.
But to the question of privacy, there is small p "political" things that can and should be done about it. I've stated my preferences. From a "legal" standpoint, it's an entirely different issue.
Do you get it yet? Or do you need to go back to PoliSci 101?
If there were more than a teeny tiny number of lesbians in 18th century America, if they had any children it would have been with an actual man as a father.
And they did not make it public, policy or a political statement.
Maragine and live sex shows have nothing in common.
The false dichotomy rears its ugly head again.
You guys are like a course in fallacies.
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