This is a must see. BTW-dedicated to counterfem.

[julie]

Please, please watch this.

You don't have to watch the whole thing but to help you follow and know when to stop I will say this. I do not want for anyone to miss the important bit.

The USA Government bench was asked a question.

A very simple question.

No thought in the answer. Just straight up ideology.

But the question was a very fair question "Would you do what is in the best interest of children?" Except, as you will see, the question was a question that any group would ask. "If we could prove that our way is saving children, would you give money."

"No, no, no, no, no." came back the answer.

So they board was asked why don't they look to the best of children and they answered, ................

Now think for a minute. This is the Government of the USA.

........... "That was a trick question"

http://www.citizenlink.org/videofeatures/A000007551.cfm

Please watch it.





another worthwhile read.

Fathers praised for going to child's birth
Telegraph (UK) 02 June 2008
A survey showed yesterday that 94 per cent of fathers-to-be were present in the delivery room. The study, which compared many aspects of 21st-century child care with parental attitudes in the Sixties and Seventies, has detected "a sea change" in family life and the way we bring up our children. Dr Stoppard, who has sold 20 million copies of her parenting books worldwide, says fathers have escaped "a straitjacket" imposed on them by society. She said the survey proved that, while fathers' natural paternal instincts were stifled 40 years ago, "today, dad is free to be the father he always wanted to be".

The survey was conducted by Dorling Kindersley, the family reference book publishers, Practical Parenting magazine, and the website saga.co.uk. It showed that 94 per cent of fathers chose to be present in the delivery room. In the 1960s, that figure was 27 per cent. Nearly three quarters of mothers (72 per cent) communicate with their unborn baby, compared with 49 per cent in the Seventies, a trend that may be attributed to women now being able to "see" their babies during antenatal scans. The survey also found that attitudes had changed towards other parenting issues, such as smacking – 72 per cent of grandmothers admitting that they smacked their children, while today only four in 10 mothers said that they did the same.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...27s-birth.html

[julie]

I am just putting this back up to the front of the cue.

BTW, I dedicate this post to Counter fem because he likes Clint Eastwood.

[Marx]

Originally Posted by julie

I am just putting this back up to the front of the cue.

It's called bumping, and is generally not good netiquette.

[julie]

I know. But someone could misunderstand my dedication. I don't want for that to happen.

[gwallan]

Originally Posted by Marx

It's called bumping, and is generally not good netiquette.

To demur slightly...if a topic is "bumped" and the bumper is updating or adding something new related to the original I see nothing wrong. An example would be posting about beginning an activist activity that comes to fruition over a long period. I've posted stories about the arrest of sex offenders and bumped them when the eventual trials were in play.