• Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin Senator, Proposes Law That Declares Single Parenthood Child Abuse
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Source: [URL]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/glenn-grothman-wisconsin-law-single-parenthood-child-abuse_n_1316834.html?&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009[/URL] [quote] A controversial bill targeting single parents came to the table at the Senate Committee on Public Health, Human Services and Revenue public hearing in Wisconsin this week. State senator Glenn Grothman, an admitted opponent of the social welfare establishment that he believes encourages women to have children out of wedlock, introduced Senate Bill 507, which would formally consider single parenthood a contributing factor to child abuse, if passed into law. SB507 would require the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to emphasize that non-marital parenthood is a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect. According to the bill: 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. Single parents make up a third of Wisconsin parents, The Annie E. Casey Foundation reports. And according to a 2009 report from the US Census Bureau, there are approximately 13.7 million single parents across the U.S., with single mothers outpacing single fathers five to one. Grothman's previous attack on the left wing contended that because social programs are available to the poor, liberals want people to be poor and use them, financial benefits he says are driving the rise in single motherhood among low-income moms. [/quote] GOP, always good for a laugh.
Well, we do have to expand our prisons and build new ones. It's a serious issue, but this is not the way to do it.
GOP: "If your husband leaves you and you try your hardest to take care of your children, we'll arrest you for child abuse!" I'm amazed at how people elect such dumbasses.
Wow, so if the father dies in a car crash, the mother is now a child abuser!
so they get arrested and now the kid has no parents right
[QUOTE=Dr.C;34966170]Wow, so if the father dies in a car crash, the mother is now a child abuser![/QUOTE] Right after the funeral, social services busts in. "WE'RE TAKING THE KID AWAY YOU SICK FUCK."
Yes, lets arrest a single parent and make the child an orphan
This literally makes ZERO sense
I'm not offended by much of anything, but this is really rustling my jimmies. I was raised by my single mother for 17 of my 19 years and she worked her ass off and did a damn fine job. To think that being raised by a single parent could be considered abuse or neglect is ridiculous. You can have abusive and neglectful parents in a married relationship, it is by no means exclusive (or for that matter immune) to single parenthood. This is just a bullshit pro-traditional family attack by a clueless disgrace of a politician. Oh, and Wisconsin, I really want to see you folks finish what started last year in Madison. This is evidence that your plight wasn't enough- your government is still controlled by the Midwest-brand-despotic-condescending-conservatives trying to limit your rights and liberties. It's a damn shame after that occupation that went down.
[QUOTE=Crash15;34966211]Yes, lets arrest a single parent and make the child an orphan[/QUOTE] Do you know what orphan means? Arresting a person doesn't kill them. Look that up again.
Given all of the stories I've heard of people being abused and neglected by foster parents, this is making my brain melt
[QUOTE=faze;34966522]Do you know what orphan means? Arresting a person doesn't kill them. Look that up again.[/QUOTE] If they incarcerated the parent, then they'd be an orphan is what he's saying (and he's right, An orphan is abandoned or the child to dead parents). Obviously the state would force you to marry someone or give your child to someone else's custody, so they wouldn't be, but his point was valid (because the statement wasn't serious, it was pointing out this is stupid. I think).
[quote]Grothman's previous attack on the left wing contended that because social programs are available to the poor, liberals want people to be poor and use them[/quote] what a genius
The political climate of my country is enough to make my head explode EVERY FUCKING DAY.
Why What the fuck
[QUOTE=Nikota;34966111]Well, we do have to expand our prisons and build new ones. It's a serious issue, but this is not the way to do it.[/QUOTE] Or you could stop arresting and incarcerating people for ridiculous reasons.
[QUOTE=faze;34966522]Do you know what orphan means? Arresting a person doesn't kill them. Look that up again.[/QUOTE] An child isn't called an orphan just because their parents are dead. Orphans are children who are deprived of supervision and care from their parents, whether they died, abandoned the child, or the parents are in jail or otherwise kept from their child.
[QUOTE=Bran;34966898]An child isn't called an orphan just because their parents are dead. Orphans are children who are deprived of supervision and care from their parents, whether they died, abandoned the child, or the parents are in jail or otherwise kept from their child.[/QUOTE] Oh really? [url]http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/orphan[/url]
Yes, keep cutting down your fucking supporters you stupid retards.
[QUOTE=faze;34966929]Oh really? [url]http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/orphan[/url][/QUOTE] Yea, really. From your own source: "a person or thing that is without protective affiliation"
Problem -> Single parents are more likely to raise badly behaved kids. Solution -> Ban Single parents Perfect sense
Really hate this state right now. Really do.
I thought this shit wasn't an issue anymore.
[QUOTE]State senator Glenn Grothman, an admitted opponent of the social welfare establishment that he believes encourages women to have children out of wedlock[/QUOTE] Wait wait wait, is he suggesting before social welfare children out of wedlock didn't exist? Like women [I]want[/I] to be single mothers and not by circumstance?
This can't pass. Not even politicians (other than this guy) are dumb enough. And corporations have no interest (as it doesn't effect them).
[QUOTE=UnidentifiedFlyingTard;34967624]I thought this shit wasn't an issue anymore.[/QUOTE] Republicans have always hated single mothers. They never even mention why, they just assume everyone else does too. The real reason is they believe sex out of marriage is wrong, and they assume all single mothers are promiscuous. They only care about preventing women from having sex out of marriage, and if they [I]do[/I] have sex out of marriage, then they deserve to be punished by having a baby (thus why they want contraception limited if not banned)
Remember the bill in Saudi Arabia that would have made women cover their eyes in public, which was introduced after a lawmaker got in a fight with a man because he nearly raped the man's wife? This is that level stupid and horrible.
Thank god we're finally going after the people that deserve it.
[QUOTE=Last or First;34966161]GOP: "If your husband leaves you and you try your hardest to take care of your children, we'll arrest you for child abuse!" I'm amazed at how people elect such dumbasses.[/QUOTE] Where did the bill say it was illegal to be a single parent? [QUOTE=Dr.C;34966170]Wow, so if the father dies in a car crash, the mother is now a child abuser![/QUOTE] Where did the bill say it was illegal to be a single parent? [QUOTE=salty peanut v2;34966183]so they get arrested and now the kid has no parents right[/QUOTE] Where did the bill say it was illegal to be a single parent?
[QUOTE=The Baconator;34967735]The real reason is they believe sex out of marriage is wrong, and they assume all single mothers are promiscuous.[/QUOTE] The voters believe that. Republican politicians only use it to justify their opposition to single mothers.
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