SENATOR WANTS LAW TO MAKE SINGLE PARENTHOOD A FORM OF CHILD ABUSE
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2012/03/03 23:51:22
When are republicans going to stay out of women’s wombs long enough to actually take care of things that need to be done?
Republican Senator Glenn Grothman of West Bend, WI, has sponsored a bill that would formally consider single parenthood a contributing factor to child abuse. Section 1. 48.982 (2) (g) 2. of Senate Bill 507 is amended to read:
Promote statewide educational and public awareness campaigns and materials for the purpose of developing public awareness of the problems of child abuse and neglect. In promoting those campaigns and materials, the board shall emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.
Section 2. 48.982 (2) (g) 4. of the statute is also amended to read:
48.982 (2) (g) 4. Disseminate information about the problems of and methods of preventing child abuse and neglect to the public and to organizations concerned with those problems. In disseminating that information, the board shall emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.
From reports on this outrageous law it’s not clear whether the Senator actually has any data to back up this claim, but my guess is no. As is often the case with outlandish legislation such as this, Sen. Grothman has a history of declaring a war on single parenthood.
Last year, he proposed a conspiracy theory that single parenthood is all apart of a Democratic ploy for bigger government. He wrote that the:”Left and the social welfare establishment want children born out of wedlock because they are far more likely to be dependent on the government.”
Last year, he proposed a conspiracy theory that single parenthood is all apart of a Democratic ploy for bigger government. He wrote that the:”Left and the social welfare establishment want children born out of wedlock because they are far more likely to be dependent on the government.”
While I’m no advocate for single parenthood, you can’t make that lifestyle a right or wrong issue. It’s about responsibility in some ways and for others evidence of a change in societal attitudes toward two-parent homes.
Although according to Grothman, “the rise in single motherhood has been driven by all the great financial benefits single, low-income mothers receive.” So what should women do, have an abortion? Oh wait, you don’t want us to do that either.
Although according to Grothman, “the rise in single motherhood has been driven by all the great financial benefits single, low-income mothers receive.” So what should women do, have an abortion? Oh wait, you don’t want us to do that either.
This alleged link between child abuse and single parenthood is a slap in the face of single mothers (and fathers) everywhere who are handling their parental responsibilities. There are far better ways to discourage being a single parent.
Do you think this law has a chance of getting passed?
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+9WTF? You know I think that Republicans have either gone totally insane or are glued to the TV series, "Mad Men". These social and cultural wars were settled in the 60's for cripes sake. Single women with children are now criminals? Break out the straight jackets. Who votes for these idiots?
single parenthood is often an escape from abuse not a cause of, how many people have left their abusive partners/husbands/wives to protect their children?
how many people are single parents only because their partners/husbands/wives have died?
this is certainly a slap in the face to those people.
but it is also a slap in the face to all single parents out there, being a single parent does not mean that you are more likely to abuse or neglect your children!
i was raised by single parents and both my parents loved and nurtured me, i was neither abused nor neglected and we didn't rely on the government to live.
I'm a single dad and my eldest lives with me most of the time, the other night someone tried to break in and the only thing I could think was thank god he's with his mum tonight.
I've never abused or neglected my kids, and I come from a background where abuse was a daily occurrence for years in a married household...
He's just another religious toad in my considered opinion that needs to get out of politics before he's assassinated by an angry grandparent.
#1 The soldiers killed in Bush's Iraq war left many children with one parent. Does that mean Bush is responsible for the "child abuse" of these children?
#2 If we take a Santorum approach and say the child needs to accept what "God" has given them, does that make "God" responsible for the "abuse".
I'm really at a loss here. This is so backward, and so offensive, and so unconstitutional. Are they insane? They are clearly harmful to society....
I'd like to be able to say the law has no possible chance of being passed. I think if it were a ballot measure I could say that. But in these republican dominated state houses, they will pass all sorts of psycho things.
On a less insulting note, though he hardly deserves it, what proof does he have besides the ever ambiguous "morality" of the issue?
Grothman was one of the pols voters tried to recall -- maybe they'll get rid of him next time around.