These folks are attempting to return us to the 1840's. Where do they live? What strange little men they are!
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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/11/27/single-moms-surrender-kids-land/
In what seems like a single step away from advocating that we take
kids away from their single moms by force, a conservative Christian
leader is urging them to give up their children voluntarily.
A conservative Christian leader says single moms should surrender their kids to Christian homes with two parents.
Right Wing Watch reports that Southern Baptist leader Richard Land is
calling on single mothers to put up their kids for adoption so that Christian households with two parents can raise them.
In a November 23rd article published on
The Christian Post,
Land urges single mothers across the nation to stop being selfish and
hand their kids over to good Christian parents so they can be raised
properly, the way he thinks God intended.
“Keeping the baby is almost never preferable to allowing a
baby to be adopted into a solid, faithful Christian home,” Land claims.
“A single mother who keeps her baby is quite often denying that baby
the father that God wants for that baby, and every baby, to have.
Furthermore, in most circumstances, keeping the baby circumscribes and
forecloses both the mother’s and the baby’s economic futures in tragic
and unfortunate ways. If the mother is doing what is best for her baby
(one of the defining marks of maternal love), she will part with her
baby so that it will have the future God intended for him or her to
have… Adoption allows the mother to give her child both a mother and a
father who will love and cherish the child.”
Richard Land calls for a policy that would increase the number of kids in need of adoptive homes by millions.
Land says he understands that there are already 100,000 children
waiting to be adopted in the United States, but he still thinks all
11 million single moms
in the nation should freely surrender their kids. Why? Because he says
the children of single moms are being raised improperly and really
should be given the chance to have a father in their lives, even if they
have to squander their childhood in orphanages waiting to be adopted.
Apparently, Land has no clue how many children that is. Try about 20
million. That’s how many children would be flooding the adoption system
if Land had his way. Earlier in his article, before he completely
insulted single moms, Land tried to make the case for adoption instead
of abortion. He says that women should always choose adoption rather
than seek an abortion. Since an estimated 1.2 million abortions are
performed every year, that would be 1.2 million babies that the already
overworked and underfunded adoption and child services system would have
to deal with each year, in addition to the 20 million Land expects
single moms to give up. Can anyone possibly imagine this turning out
well?
Unless conservatives are literally willing to order their
congressional puppets to open the government wallet and write a gigantic
check (Can anyone honestly imagine that happening?), the system would
implode upon itself. Millions of children would be stranded. And
millions of children would be added to the million-plus children who are
now homeless in America. It would create a crisis of epic proportions, with not enough Christian households around to solve it.
Richard Land’s call carves a dangerous path.
The fact is, abortion is a necessary choice that all women should
have. Sure, they have ability to choose adoption. But it seems that Land
is suggesting forcing that choice upon women. There are already so many
children who have no home, why force women to thrust more children into
that situation? It’s seriously insane.
Furthermore, after single moms read what Land said, it wouldn’t
surprise me if they tarred and feathered him in a public square. As if
conservatives haven’t attacked single mothers enough, this guy is openly
claiming that they don’t raise their children right and that the only
way they can do so is to have a husband. This personally enrages me,
because I was raised by a single mother, as are millions of children
every single year. Is it hard? Sure it is. But does that mean my single
mother wasn’t a fantastic parent who raised me well? Absolutely not.
Land’s call for single moms to willingly surrender their children is a
dangerous signal from religious conservatives. You know how
conservatives are currently cheering for Russia to forcibly take
children away from gay couples? It sounds like conservatives are now one
step closer toward forcibly taking children away from single mothers
here in America. I’m not sure what conservatives call that, but most
sane people would call it kidnapping, which is illegal. Furthermore,
Land’s call to for single moms to give up their kids to Christian
couples is highly suspicious. Clearly, these Christian fundamentalists
would be free to indoctrinate these kids. Basically, Land wants to take
kids away from their single moms so they can be brainwashed with hate,
fear, prejudice, and ignorance. Again, I’m not sure what Land calls
that, but most sane people would call that child abuse.
Conservatives have stopped at nothing to attack single mothers.
This is yet another aspect in the GOP’s war on women. They simply
can’t stand single moms, even though it’s a good bet that many
right-wingers were raised by them. Despite that, conservatives have
stopped at nothing to attack single mothers.
Kansas Republicans are increasing the
cost of childcare
across the state to fund abstinence-only programs that don’t work. You
know who is going to be affected by that the most? Single moms. In
Wisconsin, the GOP thinks single moms
actually want fatherless children and have compared single motherhood to
child abuse. Republicans even blame single moms for the epidemic of
gun violence in this country.
But that’s not all. Republican policies such as abstinence-only
programs and their anti-contraception crusade lead to more women
becoming single moms. Not only that, their policies only make the lives
of single mothers harder, thus making it more difficult to care for
their children. GOP efforts to eliminate child care services, preschool,
food stamps, and equal pay for women have only made things harder for
single women.
Here’s a thought. The he-man woman haters within the GOP should get
off their collective asses and begin pushing birth control and
comprehensive sex education. The number of unintended pregnancies would
drop as would the number of abortions. And here’s an even better idea.
What if Republicans actually supported and enacted equal pay for women?
What if they increased child care services and pre-school at the same
time? Those combined efforts would reduce the number of women who become
single mothers via unintended pregnancies. And single mothers would
have a large enough income and the assistance they need to take care of
their kids.
Richard Land’s call is sure to drive more women and their children into the welcoming arms of the Democratic Party.
Conservatives have the gall to wonder why women are voting for
Democrats, and yet they attack women on all fronts. Of course, it’s not
going to get any better for the GOP considering one of their own just
insulted millions of single mothers and the millions of children who are
raised by them. On that same note, let’s not forget that young people
are increasing voting against the Republican Party. By attacking their
moms, the GOP is just giving them another reason to vote Democrat.
Richard Land, and conservative men like him, are sexist assholes.
It’s amazing how conservative men can claim to know so much about
child-rearing when they have made it abundantly clear that they expect
women to do all the work. Maybe if Republicans advocated for teaching
men to be good partners with the women they have a child with, more kids
would have a father in their lives. Unfortunately, conservative men
like Richard Land are too busy being sexist assholes, and you can’t
expect sexist assholes to teach other men not to be one. In short, these
anti-women conservative men are totally unfit to raise children and are
totally unqualified to judge single mothers and how they raise theirs.
