May 12, 2006
May 09, 2006
Living off the government and condemning your children to poverty is selfish.
I am appalled that Terry Herrington thinks it is selfish for a woman to get an education. Does he think it is equally selfish for a man to get an education?
Women are more then uteri and they should be free to reach their full potential. It should be up to the woman if that potential includes a university degree and a professional career. Certainly getting knocked up and dropping out of school at 15 should not be held up as a laudable goal. Women and children deserve better then that.
Personally I find living off welfare selfish. According to the Welfare Reform Academy “Never-married mothers not only go on welfare in greater numbers than divorced women, but they also stay on longer. While divorced women typically use welfare as a temporary measure until they get back on their feet, unmarried mothers become trapped in long-term welfare dependency. In a study of welfare mothers, Nicholas Zill, formerly of Child Trends, Inc., and his colleagues found that 43 percent of long- term AFDC recipients were 17 years old or younger at the time of their first birth, compared to 25 percent of short-term recipients. An out-of- wedlock birth to a young mother seems to be a direct path to long-term poverty and welfare dependency. ”
And what happens to the children of these unwed Mother’s. According to Professor James Q. Wilson of Malibu California, “among white children, those living with unwed mothers were much more likely to become delinquent, and this remained true even after the researcher held constant family income. Among all children, those with an unwed mother were twice as likely to spend time in jail, as were those with two parents even after the researchers held constant family income. In predominately African American communities, the rate of violent crime is more closely correlated with family structure than with race. To avoid poverty in this country, you need do only three things: finish high school, marry before having a child, and produce the first child after the age of twenty. William Galston, formerly an adviser to President Clinton, has shown that only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor while 79 percent who fail to do this are poor.”
Getting an education doesn’t make a woman selfish it makes her SMART. Living off the government and condemning your children to poverty is selfish.
Women are more then uteri and they should be free to reach their full potential. It should be up to the woman if that potential includes a university degree and a professional career. Certainly getting knocked up and dropping out of school at 15 should not be held up as a laudable goal. Women and children deserve better then that.
Personally I find living off welfare selfish. According to the Welfare Reform Academy “Never-married mothers not only go on welfare in greater numbers than divorced women, but they also stay on longer. While divorced women typically use welfare as a temporary measure until they get back on their feet, unmarried mothers become trapped in long-term welfare dependency. In a study of welfare mothers, Nicholas Zill, formerly of Child Trends, Inc., and his colleagues found that 43 percent of long- term AFDC recipients were 17 years old or younger at the time of their first birth, compared to 25 percent of short-term recipients. An out-of- wedlock birth to a young mother seems to be a direct path to long-term poverty and welfare dependency. ”
And what happens to the children of these unwed Mother’s. According to Professor James Q. Wilson of Malibu California, “among white children, those living with unwed mothers were much more likely to become delinquent, and this remained true even after the researcher held constant family income. Among all children, those with an unwed mother were twice as likely to spend time in jail, as were those with two parents even after the researchers held constant family income. In predominately African American communities, the rate of violent crime is more closely correlated with family structure than with race. To avoid poverty in this country, you need do only three things: finish high school, marry before having a child, and produce the first child after the age of twenty. William Galston, formerly an adviser to President Clinton, has shown that only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor while 79 percent who fail to do this are poor.”
Getting an education doesn’t make a woman selfish it makes her SMART. Living off the government and condemning your children to poverty is selfish.
May 04, 2006
Allow Women to Decide for Themselves
First off Abraham Smith is misleading people. The majority of abortions occur in the first trimester. The few late term abortions that do take place are usually done for medically reasons, involving the health and welfare of the Mother. And it?s because of ANTI-CHOICE advocates like Mr. Smith that women are often denied access to the morning after pill that would make abortions unnecessary.
Mr. Smith touts adoption as the only CHOICE a woman should have if an unwanted pregnancy occurs. But why should a woman have to give up nine months of her life to please the Mr. Smith?s of this world? Having the baby and keeping it or putting it up for adoption doesn?t offer a woman an alternative to an unwanted pregnancy, with either of these so called choices she is still pregnant.
Obviously since Mr. Smith is a man he will never know the terror, violation and humiliation of being raped, thus it is easy for him to say that women should just be forced to endure carrying their rapist baby for nine months.
If Mr. Smith truly wanted to end abortions he would work to insure that health insurance covered birth control, that all women had access to cheap, reliable birth control and he would make sure that all women who needed it had access to the morning after pill. If he truly cared about children he would work to ensure that the children currently in the system waiting to be adopted had loving homes to go to. http://www.mdhs.state.ms.us/fcs_adoptall.html
Unlike Mr. Smith claims there are a LOT of gray areas when it comes to abortion. The best choice for a civilized world is to allow women and their doctors to decide what is best for them without government interference
Mr. Smith touts adoption as the only CHOICE a woman should have if an unwanted pregnancy occurs. But why should a woman have to give up nine months of her life to please the Mr. Smith?s of this world? Having the baby and keeping it or putting it up for adoption doesn?t offer a woman an alternative to an unwanted pregnancy, with either of these so called choices she is still pregnant.
Obviously since Mr. Smith is a man he will never know the terror, violation and humiliation of being raped, thus it is easy for him to say that women should just be forced to endure carrying their rapist baby for nine months.
If Mr. Smith truly wanted to end abortions he would work to insure that health insurance covered birth control, that all women had access to cheap, reliable birth control and he would make sure that all women who needed it had access to the morning after pill. If he truly cared about children he would work to ensure that the children currently in the system waiting to be adopted had loving homes to go to. http://www.mdhs.state.ms.us/fcs_adoptall.html
Unlike Mr. Smith claims there are a LOT of gray areas when it comes to abortion. The best choice for a civilized world is to allow women and their doctors to decide what is best for them without government interference
Women Owe it to Themselves to Get an Education
Michelle Frazier (March 15th) states “. I had my son at 15, and I would not change a thing; he will be 16 soon and we have done just fine.” I am happy that solution to an unwanted pregnancy worked for her, but each woman is different and deserves to be able to choose the solution that is best for her.
I also have to question how fine she and her son are doing in light of Hank Bounds column Lack of Diploma is costly. According to Mr. Bounds “Male and females students with low academic achievements are twice as likely to become parents. Dropping out of school and earning low wages becomes a self-perpetuating cycle. Students from low-income families have a dropout rate of 10 percent, students from middle-income families have a dropout rate of 5.2 percent and only 1.6 percent of students from high-income families drop out of school, according to the National Dropout Prevention Center”
While money isn’t everything, certainly those women who choose not to have a baby at 15, and opt to continue their educations should be applauded not held up to scorn. In today’s world having a university degree is mandatory in order to get a decent paying job. Today many women must support themselves without the help of a husband. Women owe it to themselves to get the best education possible in order to compete in today’s job market.
I also have to question how fine she and her son are doing in light of Hank Bounds column Lack of Diploma is costly. According to Mr. Bounds “Male and females students with low academic achievements are twice as likely to become parents. Dropping out of school and earning low wages becomes a self-perpetuating cycle. Students from low-income families have a dropout rate of 10 percent, students from middle-income families have a dropout rate of 5.2 percent and only 1.6 percent of students from high-income families drop out of school, according to the National Dropout Prevention Center”
While money isn’t everything, certainly those women who choose not to have a baby at 15, and opt to continue their educations should be applauded not held up to scorn. In today’s world having a university degree is mandatory in order to get a decent paying job. Today many women must support themselves without the help of a husband. Women owe it to themselves to get the best education possible in order to compete in today’s job market.
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