Is being a parent outside of traditional marriage child abuse?
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Even the Senator knows his idea is too whacked out to be acceptable to the public, using the term "politically incorrect" rather than the more accurate term of morally reprehensible, but that didn't stop him from giving it a try.
Since the vast majority of single parents are women, the proposal fits nicely into the GOP's nationwide push to target them for special regulation in dozens of ways, this time as a source of child abuse, even though no evidence of it exists in decades of study.
If we were to accept the Senator's argument, it would make a good basis for an eventual argument that outlawing single, gay, or unmarried parenting in order to reduce child abuse should be considered. That would leave the traditional Christian family as the only form acceptable for procreation, and maybe the hope is that since the rest could no longer have children their ideals would die off in a generation or two.
Wisconsin Lawmaker Introduces Law To Classify Single Parenthood As Child Abuse
Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) has introduced a bill demonizing single parents by classifying them as child abusers.
Senate Bill 507 specifically requires "the Child Abuse and Neglect
Prevention Board to emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing
factor to child abuse and neglect."
A third of Wisconsin parents are single parents,
but this law affects even more than that. The way the law refers to
"nonmarital parenthood" also makes this applicable to non-married
couples, including same-sex couples. S.B. 507 reads:
Section 1. 48.982 (2) (g) 2. of the statutes is amended to
read: 48.982 (2) (g) 2. 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 statutes is 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.
Read More: http://chicagoist.com/2012/03/07/wi_grothman_paren...
Top Opinion
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Kaleokualoha 2012/03/25 18:59:21The GOP war on women amounts to sunset falling on freedom
I got a single digit finger for those who believe (actually they want to dictate) their traditional family life as "correct" and anything that doesn't fit is wrong.
So, if that is the case, then the daughter of their patron saint is a bad person, a bad mother because as a teen, she couldn't keep her legs together and got pregnant and is still a single mother. Does that make Saint Palin a bad mother because she allow her daughter to get pregnant?
Sorry - the above is a stupid argument, much like the law introduced by Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn Grothman.
Just another moron the people in West Bend elected.
So, the way I understand it - after reading through the information provided - according to what senator Grothman is suggesting, then every parent who doesn't live according to this "traditional christian family model" is a child abuser.
This is a very slippery slope; and here's why. This will not stop with single, gay, or unwed parents. Remember, he's a conservative politician, and they don't know when - or even how - to stop. If he insists on keeping the phrase "traditional christian family model" in there - and he will; remember, he's a conservative politician; it's what they do - then any couple not married in a "christian" ceremony will automatically be classified a child abuser too. Why? Because they're not living according to the "traditional christian family model" (the key word being "christian"). We're talking about people married in an islamic ceremony, or a pagan ceremony, people married before the justice of the peace, even America's best buddies, the jewish people. If this law passes, then essentially any couple legally married in any other tradition than christian, would be instantly classified as abusers of their own child.
I honestly don't think Senator Grothman has thought this all the way through.
Also, I want a law that outlaws passenger cars. Did you know that the traffic fatality rate of passenger cars is double that of all other vehicles?
Also, I want a law that outlaws pilots on airplanes. Did you know that air fatalities caused by pilot error are 7 times higher than those caused by non pilots?
WHO IS WITH ME?
Makes sense.
Oh and bringing King in this work, because even King stood for just laws and this is not a just law, or a just ideal.
Think that law is crap and I don't think it is just the GOP's war on women.
they have marginalized themselves right out of the political area.... what's left for them?
duno...
I guess we are better off without your opinion, anyway.
Look. No offense. I have a really low tolerance for stupid. This isn't even your poll. Go bother someone else. In fact.....you'll bother someone else.....because I'm done listening to you whine for someone else's poll. How stupid.
It still is.
his question, one sided answers
http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
All one sided answers
So keep up the good work Cons.
What about women in abusive relationships with children?
Huh, huh. This state disgusts me sometimes.