Wisconsin Legislator: Being a single mother constitutes child abuse

[Doktor Howl]

http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/Wisconsin-Bill-Says-Single-Mothers-Responsible-for-Child-Abuse-141508403.html

In Wisconsin, a state senator has introduced a bill aimed at penalizing single mothers by calling their unmarried status a contributing factor in child abuse and neglect.

Senate Bill 507, introduced by Republican Senator Glenn Grothman, moves to amend existing state law by "requiring the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect."

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Grothman has advanced and supported other policies "that make it harder to access prevention-based health services so that they can prevent pregnancy, so that they're not in a situations here they have an unintended or unwanted pregnancy," Taylor added.

In "How The United States and The State of Wisconsin Are Working to Encourage Single Motherhood and Discouraging Children in 2-Parent Families," he wrote that the government urges women not to get married by making programs like low-income housing assistance, school choice, WIC, tax credits, and food stamps more attractive than marriage.

His solution? Restrict the types of foods that can be purchased with food stamps, make Section 8 housing more cramped and limit the value of assets owned living there to $2,000, and eliminate school choice, among other things.

Well, maybe THIS will teach those women not to run around with a vagina.   

[Nephew Twiddleton]

http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/Wisconsin-Bill-Says-Single-Mothers-Responsible-for-Child-Abuse-141508403.html

In Wisconsin, a state senator has introduced a bill aimed at penalizing single mothers by calling their unmarried status a contributing factor in child abuse and neglect.

Senate Bill 507, introduced by Republican Senator Glenn Grothman, moves to amend existing state law by "requiring the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect."

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Grothman has advanced and supported other policies "that make it harder to access prevention-based health services so that they can prevent pregnancy, so that they're not in a situations here they have an unintended or unwanted pregnancy," Taylor added.

In "How The United States and The State of Wisconsin Are Working to Encourage Single Motherhood and Discouraging Children in 2-Parent Families," he wrote that the government urges women not to get married by making programs like low-income housing assistance, school choice, WIC, tax credits, and food stamps more attractive than marriage.

His solution? Restrict the types of foods that can be purchased with food stamps, make Section 8 housing more cramped and limit the value of assets owned living there to $2,000, and eliminate school choice, among other things.

Well, maybe THIS will teach those women not to run around with a vagina.   

Single mothers is child abuse, but state restriction of food, education and adequate housing isn't.


:twitch:

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Our party is about small government except when it involves anything that has to do with you.

[AFK]

I think that ass-bag legislator being in any form of public service constitutes child abuse. 

[AFK]

Honestly, between making it harder for single mothers to keep their kids and making it harder for single women to prevent having kids, she's essentially setting up a government-supported baby-mill for orphanages. 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Honestly, between making it harder for single mothers to keep their kids and making it harder for single women to prevent having kids, she's essentially setting up a government-supported baby-mill for orphanages.

We need to keep those prisons full.

[Doktor Howl]

Honestly, between making it harder for single mothers to keep their kids and making it harder for single women to prevent having kids, she's essentially setting up a government-supported baby-mill for orphanages.

"He".

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Does this legislation extend to single fathers? No probably not, why am I even asking.

[Doktor Howl]

Does this legislation extend to single fathers? No probably not, why am I even asking.

Read the article for lulz.  Seriously.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

"the role of fathers in the primary prevention of child abuse and neglect."

Yes, if there is no father around, him being out of the picture might be part of that prevention. This is a no-brainer.

Saying that people "make fun of old-fashioned families," Grothman -- who has never been married and has no children -- criticized social workers for not agreeing that children should only be raised by two married biological parents

Edited because other photo too big.

[AFK]

This is also an obvious play at making it illegal for gay couples to have kids. 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

This is also an obvious play at making it illegal for gay couples to have kids.

That might be an intended side effect, but I see this as more of another attack on women's reproductive rights as well as cutting evil socialist programs.

[Freeky]

[Cain]

This is also an obvious play at making it illegal for gay couples to have kids.

That might be an intended side effect, but I see this as more of another attack on women's reproductive rights as well as cutting evil socialist programs.

Ding ding ding, we have a winner.

No babies for you, unless you're in a hetrosexual relationship.  Which, given cuts in funding and the current attacks on contraceptives means "no sex for you, unless you're married".

The GOP has just spent the last week, pretty much in unision, backing up the idea that women who want access to affordable contraceptives are "sluts" and "whores" and this should see seen entirely within that context of events.

[AFK]

This is also an obvious play at making it illegal for gay couples to have kids.

That might be an intended side effect, but I see this as more of another attack on women's reproductive rights as well as cutting evil socialist programs.

Oh, for sure that is the primary reason.  I'm just observing that when they use language like "biological", there is a clear and signaled intent to make sure that gay couples are excluded from the two-parent, government supported system.