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A GOP lawmaker in Wisconsin is trying to pass a bill that would classify non marital parenthood as a cause of child abuse. Since gays cannot legally mary in Wisconsin, the bill automatically includes single and coupled gays and lesbians, plus any single person regardless of orientation.
The bill requir[es] the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect. Republican State Senator Glenn Grothman, who has a long history of radical positions, wants to spend tax dollars educating the public with no scientific proof (because there is none) that gays, lesbians, single mothers, and single fathers should not be allowed to be parents because their children will grow up in an abusive home.
In fact, Senator Grothman is claiming that the very lack of two married opposite sex parents in a household constitutes child abuse. Apparently, Senator Grothman believes that marriage is for procreation, and therefore only married people should be allowed to raise children.
In essence, the bill could, if it became law, be used to outlaw all gay couples raising children, and all single-parent households.
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/gop-bill-outlaws-all-single-parent-and-all-gay-households-as-child-abuse/politics/2012/03/02/35633
hlthe2b
(102,561 posts)Don't I hear the Taliban calling this idiot? Surely his policies would go over far better in Afghanistan.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Gawd, poor Wisconsinites. They just keep getting hit over and over again by RWing, crazy bullies.
liberalhistorian
(20,822 posts)Reaping what they've sown, in other words. Because these ignorant hateful goobers don't just get into office on their own.
justabob
(3,069 posts)When their husband dies, does the widow become an abuser automatically? Or does she/he have a grace period to bag a new mate?
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Neglect?
I think not.
EC
(12,287 posts)need to remember why they loved him and work it out.
meow2u3
(24,776 posts)What makes this cellar dweller who never married or had kids think he's an expert on marriage and family?
Does he really want widows and widowers to have their children taken away from them just because their spouse died? What a sadistic, heartless, ignorant prick. He doesn't know his ass from his elbow about raising kids.
dembotoz
(16,866 posts)we did not get enough signitures for a recall.
parts of the district are very scary red
Initech
(100,149 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)As God is my witness, I truly thought Wisconsin was smarter than this.
marshall
(6,665 posts)She is the single adoptive mother of three children.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)She scrubbed floors on her hands and knees, and took care of rich people's children (like the Anne Romney's) to support my Mom (aged 4) and my Uncle (aged 2). She never remarried, yet neither my Mom nor my Uncle ever got in trouble with the law, and were good, hard working citizens, and raised families of their own, minus a father. Their Uncles filled in for a "man in their lives".
These people are crazy.
stuntcat
(12,022 posts)And what about couples like us who aren't married to procreate?
We already get the weird pity attitude from all the old people, the pressure never ends
It will not surprise me when someone tries to make a marriage like ours illegal.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)gets charged with abuse, loses the kids, and they get given to the abusive spouse or put in foster care or up for adoption??
That'll teach her not to give her man any more lip.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)"put up for adoption." Because the abusive man is also single now and therefore ineligible to raise children, either. The only way he'd be allowed is if he'd already married again.
Which brings up the question for all divorces: Do both parties have to be immediately remarried upon becoming legally divorced?
How about instead, we make a law that states that being a member of the GOP is a form of mental and/or psychological abuse and therefore all children of GOP parents must be given up to Liberal households?
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)it's the only Christian thing to do.........
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)like the mighty hammer of Thor!
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)the time of my divorce.
I'd pay to meet that shitbag.