F'n Breeders, man
Just to back up the previous blog, here are the statistics on hetero-marriage:
Each year in the United States, Child Protective Service agencies investigate more than 3 million reports of child abuse. An average of five to six children die each day as a result of this abuse. As for the wives, more than 4 million women are battered ech year, with approximately 1400 dying annually as a result. With the violence these situations perpetuate, the social impact is obviously enormous: Violent juvenile offenders are four times more likely to have grown up in homes where they witnessed or received abuse. Women who are battered have more than twice the average health care costs, and are disproportionately represented among the homeless and suicide victims.
Isn't this awful? So join me in saying: please stop opposite-sex marriage before more innocent lives are wasted. Thanks.
Each year in the United States, Child Protective Service agencies investigate more than 3 million reports of child abuse. An average of five to six children die each day as a result of this abuse. As for the wives, more than 4 million women are battered ech year, with approximately 1400 dying annually as a result. With the violence these situations perpetuate, the social impact is obviously enormous: Violent juvenile offenders are four times more likely to have grown up in homes where they witnessed or received abuse. Women who are battered have more than twice the average health care costs, and are disproportionately represented among the homeless and suicide victims.
Isn't this awful? So join me in saying: please stop opposite-sex marriage before more innocent lives are wasted. Thanks.
posted by Samwick @ 7:35 AM
3 Comments:
At 2:10 PM,
Anonymous said…
The ability to breed is a precious gift but hardly essential for a person to live a whole and happy life unless he or she chooses to believe otherwise; the ability to love, however, and be loved and lovable is absolutely essential if a person is to live a life worth living. That's my view. I pity the ones who cannot love or make themselves unlovable, for it is those people who, regardless of how they hide behind the Christ, are living in fear and behaving unnaturally.
I can't understand, either, how heterosexual couples can see it as absolutely essential they have their own children and nobody else's when so many children are waiting to be adopted. Lesbians, too, sometimes make a point of going for artificial insemination because having a child deemed their own is, again, important.
However, gay men wanting children tend to go for adoption where permitted by law. Only a few entrust their sperms to surrogates, and for good reason as it's hardly a secure way of gaining a child and they could find the mother unwilling to part with the child once born. Why, though, is it so essential for heteros and some lesbians and a much smaller proportion of gay men to have children who are blood relatives? A good family is not blood-dependent but love-dependent and heterosexuals in particular as a group never question their overwhelming desire to breed. It's like they see it as ownership, as proof of fertility. I don't need that proof myself. It's more important that my lover sees me as a good lover, and I him. When we come to have children - and we will, we've been together seven years now - it will because we plan to, we prepare for their coming and we go through a rigorous adoption process to check our suitability. It's the easiest thing in the world for heterosexuals to fuck and breed; much harder, though, is to be a good parent.
And the fact remains, while so many heterosexual couples spend a fortune on IVF treatments and the like, there are children languishing in state-run homes facing abuse, rape, and lives of eventual delinquency and adult criminality. The money on IVF would be better spent on adoptive children to give them the best education alongside a whole lot of love and care denied to them by their birth parents for whatever reason.
At 11:43 AM,
Samwick said…
It's now official Andy: when I vote on November 2nd I am writing your name in for Presidnet. I wish more people realized the truth of what you are saying, it's amazing to me that so many people can turn a blind eye to what is going on.
At 8:38 PM,
Anonymous said…
Hey, you can't do that for two reasons: one, my modesty (but thanks for the compliment) and two, you'd open the door for (wannabe) Supreme Commandante Arnie to stand for the job as well - and everyone the world over watching the US knows he wants to be the first foreign-born President of the USA.
That's enough to give me more nightmares than Bush and Cheney getting in again! In fact, I'd send someone back in a time machine to prevent Arnie ever winning governorship of California... oh, wait, wasn't that time travel element in a movie plotline at some point? :-)
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