Comments on: Obama’s Department of Justice says mommies are meaningless

By: edge of the sandbox

edge of the sandbox — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 06:47:21 +0000

In my SF Bay Area suburb everyone is a feminist, and all families that can afford it have women staying home with kids. It’s kids’ choice, it’s mother’s choice and it’s the dad’s choice — usually, although I know A few dads who are unwilling to support mothers of their children [that they aren't married to]. Stay at home dads are an exception to the rule.
That children don’t need a mom and a dad contradicts century-worth of findings of sociological research. I suspect that the studies that show that gay parenting is just as good are BS. Lesbian moms that I know usually have a chip on their shoulder. Some of them are nice, but they are out to prove that they are like the best parents ever. At the same time they are quite… mmm…. counter-cultural in their approach to child-rearing. But that’s just what I came across.
One thing to keep in mind is that the lesbians who are having children while involved with other lesbians are usually pretty well-off financially, and they made their babies with top quality sperm. So there is some sort of selection going on.

By: MacG

MacG — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:03:32 +0000

“The fact that women are different from men” Heretic! Or is that Hisetic?

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:23:08 +0000

If they ever do find the gay gene, that will merely end up with the Left’s eugenicists aborting those with the gene.

They will, of course, blame it on Right wing fundamentalism. And cry out for more money, more power, more support as a result.

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:45:56 +0000

My very first memory is of seeing grown-ups cry after JFK was assassinated. Not a very nice memory. My second memory is of me leaving the building after a morning in preschool (so I must have been 3 or 4). The preschool was at the bottom of a driveway. I was at the bottom and my mom was at the top, smiling at me as I ran into her arms. I love my dad, but I don't have those memories of him.

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:25:12 +0000

11B40–love your story of women in the kitchen, men in the living room. German descent here and the same happened to me growing up, except the kids were delegated to the basement! BUT…. I would sit on the top step, listening to my dad, his father, brothers and the older nephews talking, arguing, shouting about politics, unions, the church(gee, only a little whiskey involved!). Absolutely the best part of the week–Sunday afternoons at Grandma and Grandpas house. And it was best because I knew that the men in the house were discussing, talking about, taking care of the world–the stuff that went on outside of the women’s control; and my mom, grandma, aunties and older female cousins were talking and discussing many of the same issues, sorting out how best to comment later; yet also discussing the kids, cooking and frankly how to raise the kids in the new, changing world we were entering.
The balance men and women provide each other make a truly FULL life–all bases get covered.

By: Libby

Libby — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:05:02 +0000

Sadly, feminists have a lot of responsibility for the DOJ’s line of thinking. They’ve worked for decades to destroy the traditional family structure (too patriarchal!), delegitimize the unique role of women as mothers, and for women to perceive pregnancy as a disease (or punishment) that is cured through abortion.

By: 11B40

11B40 — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:48:04 +0000

Greetings:

On the one hand, once you have convinced yourself that homosexuality is not a serious sexual dysfunction, you’re over the roller coaster’s hump and the gravity of deception takes hold. To expect otherwise, is to expect to be able to tell a solitary lie.

On the other hand, growing up in a (Bronx) Irish Catholic home revealed a couple of interesting cultural proclivities. One was the “Irish Party” which basically referred to the menfolk gathering in the living room and the women in the kitchen. While there were certainly vagaries in this regard, women and children seemed to have more freedom of movement than the men, there was an underlying purposefulness. Children had to find the needed adoration in the warmths of the kitchen and were expected to be virtually silent observers in the living room. Women were allowed, under the guise of refreshment replacement to present themselves in the living room on occasion but with acknowledgment only and little or no expectation of similar adoration. This cultural proclivity became apparent to me around the time of my First Holy Communion when I got the telepathic message from my father that it was time for me to spend more time among the menfolk and less among the various warmths of the the kitchen and the ladies. Years later, this was reinforced during a dinnertime discussion between my mother and my father about my getting a 22 calibre rifle for my birthday. My mother’s position was that a firearm was something that should be involved in the rearing of a child. My father’s position was that he wasn’t raising a child, he was raising a man.

I have little faith in these modern “advancements” of child rearing. While they may have their successes, and certainly times have changed, the greater probabilities of success still lie with the traditional ways. I don’t know if those who push their modern ways are unknowing, unwise, or conspiratorial, but they certainly have accepted a higher level of risk to our society and culture by following their course.

And in these days, I can’t help but wonder how our Muslim brothers and sisters are raising their children.

By: jj

jj — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:01:32 +0000

Any conclusion from any department that has anything to with Holder is automatically suspect. And, the people voted proposition 8 down! I am goddamed if I can see a basis, rooted anywhere other than in a barrel of BS, for the expressed will of several million folks to be overturned by a bunch of retired ambulance-chasers in ball gowns. Even if they were wearing Dior they don’t get to do that. The state constitution is pretty simple: it allows for putting questions before the people, and what they say goes. A constitution is, at heart, nothing more than what the majority of the people say it is.

I think you have a far bigger constitutional question here than you do parenting issue.

By: barbtheevilgenius

barbtheevilgenius — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:47:32 +0000

I’ve been a stay-at-home mom since becoming pregnant with my first daughter. I wouldn’t trade all the time I’ve been able to spend with my daughters for anything. Not only was I right there during their most formative years, but I’m also available as soon as they get home from school if they had a bad day, or even if they had a great day. And we get to talk, a lot, about anything and everything.
It absolutely amazes me how much of a difference there is between the way that my husband and I parent. But even more surprising is the dysfunction I see in my daughters’ high school and middle school friends. My teens have their share of angst, drama and general adolescent issues. But some of these kids seem to be seriously hurting. And too often there is only one parent involved, or a parent and a stepparent, said stepparent not really caring about the kid that much.
There may be some arrogant types that think we can control biology. I think the real leaders among those saying biology doesn’t matter are doing it so they can use the State to replace Mommy and Daddy.