It seems like every day you can hear any given politician say, “We live in the greatest nation in the world.” I always wonder what makes us great. Are we proud that 4,000 lives are willfully ended each day via abortion? Are we so impressed by the oratory skills of our world leaders and their ability to drop puzzling metaphysical questions such as, “That depends on what your definition of is is?” Or maybe we just think greatness is measured by the size of our debt. Whatever it is, I can tell you what it is certainly not, and I’m talking about our concern for the family.
The United States is one of four countries in the world that does not provide any sort of paid maternity leave! We rank right behind Lesotho, Papua New Guinea and Swaziland. These countries have been ravished by war, famine, and other terrible atrocities. What is our excuse?
Yes folks, this is true, we could not possibly care less about mothers and children, about the family thriving, about solid values or virtues. Our excuse? We have work to get done! Get that kid into day care so you can come back and make some money!
Don’t get me wrong, I love our country. And I’m not anti-government or some sort of conspiracy theorist. But the morality of our country has certainly plummeted in the last 200 years. We may have progressed with our technology, but our moral values have nearly vanished, and the family is vanishing along with it as abortion, contraception, gay marriage, euthanasia, cloning, and embryonic stem cell research hack away at our country’s moral foundation.
As first time mother Linda Strauss McIlroy said as she prepared to place her two-month old baby into day-care so she could return to work, “It's hard for me to imagine leaving him. Just not being with him all day, leaving him with a virtual stranger. And then that's it till, you know, I retire. It's kind of crazy to think about it.”
I’m not settling for crazy, it’s horrible.
Read more about it:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-07-26-maternity-leave_x.htm
http://www.inc.com/news/articles/200702/family.html
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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