I am ready for the culture wars to end. This insanity has gone on longer than it ever should have. I never bothered with women’s studies in college. Nor did I give any credit to the “Women can have it all” movement. I was blessed with having a good family history documentation growing up. I lived in the same community where my great-great grandparents settled after they immigrated to the country. My great grandmother Blanche, was an amazing woman. She was a school teacher, a wife, and a mother to two boys. We had an extremely close community. While I was in high school I had the assignment to interview a World War 2 Veteran. Though I didn’t know it at the time, the Pearl Harbor survivor that I had contacted, was a former student of my grandmother.
The revelations of that time period amazed me. I had been told that women should have careers and put family on the back burner. Then I had this new story of my grandmother who was a devote teacher, but it wasn’t the biggest component of her life. Now every time I read articles that paint children as burdens it makes me angry. When I read articles that promote divorce a la “Eat, Prey, Love” style it makes me angry. When I hear Wendy Davis (D-Texas) arguing abortion rights and telling representatives that unless they have a medical degree to get out of the vagina business it makes me angry. Knowing full well that this woman has no medical degree and isn’t qualified to make those decisions either.
Michael Snyder
American Dream
August 6, 2013
There is a relentless assault on the family in America today unlike anything that we have ever seen before. For decades, the entertainment industry and the mainstream media have been portraying marriage as the time “when your fun is over” and they have been encouraging young adults to put off marriage for as long as possible.
So now the marriage rate in the United States is at a record low and the average age for a first marriage is at a record high. Meanwhile, the entertainment industry and the mainstream media have been heavily promoting the philosophy that having fewer children is better, and they have been teaching our young people that abortion is a really good option if an unwanted pregnancy comes along. The whole idea is that children are going to keep you from enjoying the kind of life that you really deserve to have.
This philosophy is taken even further in a new Time Magazine article. The article is entitled “The Childfree Life: When having it all means not having children“, and it openly promotes a “childless lifestyle” as the path to the good life for young U.S. couples. The following is how the article begins…
