Babies Quotes
Mrs. Roosevelt made issues national by the use of her daily column which was a type of blog with newspapers. Here she focused on a major health problem. At the time, Mrs. Roosevelt saw this as a women’s issue which of course it was. Government spent large sums of money to minimize or prevent death of men in war, but almost nothing on the problem of women’s death in childbirth despite the fact that many more women were killed than men. Unfortunately, while not to the same degree or proportion, the problem is still with us. With our wonderful modern medicine, we have increased the lifespan of most Americans markedly, but there are still many women who receive no prenatal care or counseling with the negative consequence.
This is an example of how values in politics can get complex. Family Leader put together The Marriage Vow, a pledge it wanted political candidates to sign. The pledge dealt with marital fidelity and other traditional family values. Two Republican Presidential Nomination Candidates signed the pledge rapidly as many of their competitors had notorious affairs and/or had been divorced. The 2 signers thought that they would obtain a substantial advantage. However, another part of the pledge was dealing with the importance of children being brought up in a 2 parent home, The quotation gives their statement on Black families and illegitimacy. However, they organization was so hung up on the evil of children in single parent households, that they said in the pledge that Blacks were better off under slavery than they are under Barack Obama—the first Black President. As might have been expected, there were no Blacks and even very few racist whites who would claim Black children and families were better off under slavery. They two politicians, Michelle Bachman and Rick Santorum—neither very sensitive to minority issues and perceived by most Blacks as racists—began to back away from their signing, First Leader, then removed the quoted paragraph from all copies of the signed pledges and removed it from their website. However, original copies—including the quoted paragraph—got into the hands of the media and the scandal began. Family Leader, trying to do damage control, wisely apologized. The other Republican Presidential aspirants both monogamous and otherwise, refused to sign but what it is that made them refuse was probably different for each person.
At the time there were over 22,000 orphan children being “cared for” on English Workhouses. When women got the vote in Britain, many scandals like this were remedied.
He was agreeing with the Right Wing racist Dutch politician Geert Wilders that one of the dangers of immigration of different races and ethnicities is that their children would not be capable or able to contribute to America or in his view make America Great Again as it has been diminished by all these immiogrant babies of the last few generations. There are very few areas of civilization where America is not greater today than ever before.
