Imagine going to court dressed as a women, your sentence would not only be halved but in most cases you would be let off regardless of the crime. Nothing escapes this mentality..
Murdered your husband.. oh you poor dear, he must have been a monster..
Murder your kids..oh dear you must have suffered while you lowered them into the bath one at a time..(all five of them)
Microwaved your daughter..oh dear, you must have felt bad and your pms must have been overwhelming..
Regardless, it would seem that if you are a female, anything you do, any women will justify your actions..
Normal female behaviour..
Being a female has distinct advantages as we all know..but I did not realise it was such a windfall..
Robert Franklin
I'm not making this up. Apparently, at least in Wisconsin, women can rack up some pretty big bucks just for taking care of their own kids and occasionally those of their friends and relatives. Here's an article about four sisters who basically just traded off care of each others' children and, over the course of three years, banked $540,000 in taxpayer money (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1/25/09). And it's all perfectly legal. I wonder what would happen if some guys got together and tried to play that angle.
Truly though, this is the brave new world. I've argued before that women need to give up power over children if they are ever to gain power in the workplace. It seems obvious to me that men and women are in this life together and that the more one does towards childcare, the less he/she will do at the plant or office. There's a tradeoff between a parent's involvement with baby and his/her involvement with work, and relevant statistics bear that out. As I say, I've argued the point before and I'll argue it again.
But here's where I could be wrong. If a third party comes along and takes Dad's rightful place with his child, maybe women can have it all. If, instead of promoting greater father involvement with children we substitute daycare, maybe women can have the kids and the money.
But who might that third party be? The government of course. If we can just get enough taxpayer money for subsidized daycare, then Mom can go to work, come home to baby who's been at daycare all day and have nothing whatsoever to do with Dad. If the only cost to society is billions of taxpayer dollars, fathers separated from kids and kids growing up without fathers, then surely, as Madeline Albright once said of thousands of dead Iraqis, it's "worth the cost." That makes sense, doesn't it?
I've long suspected that that's what a lot of the anti-father crowd is angling for, and certainly there are plenty of calls for ever-increasing levels of government-subsidized daycare. Not coincidentally, those calls are coming at a time when courts and legislatures are doing everything they can to separate fathers from children, and 38.5% of children are born out-of-wedlock. If we assume that what we're doing is what we intend to do, maybe my paranoid fantasy isn't so fantastic after all.
So possibly it's more accurate to see this Wisconsin case, not as a mistake but as a kind of pilot program for the brave new world to come.
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"It's a loophole," said Laurice Lincoln, administrative coordinator for child care with the Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services. "Do we have concerns about it? Yes, it can be a problem. But if it's allowed, it's allowed. We really can't dispute it."
This, together with the taxpayer-funded octuplets and the taxpayer-funded wars, will kill the USA from within.
These women won't start to care until it affects them. By then it will be too late.
This is outrageous. How can it happen? The cry of the feminist movement was children would suffer being with daddy because he had to go to work, why isn't that the case with mothers then? Honestly, children would be better off with their fathers.
most of the thing this days , are men fault !! men accept to marry, nem accept to have sex without condom (the surprise , you are father)...mas do stupid things because of love...!! no one can make US bad if we accecpt it !! i do what i ilke, what i feel its right...i do not care if im 41 , and someone ask "why you never married or have kids?" i just give a funny awnser ...hey Men ,do control your lifes !
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