I Want My Mommy!

Yet another study shows what people with common sense (conservatives) have known all along -- kids need their moms.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Working single mothers who rely on their family, friends, or other informal child care providers to look after their children during work hours may, in doing so, negatively influence their child's mental development, new study findings suggest. This negative effect of a mother's reduced contact time with her child may be offset, however, by enrolling the child in pre-school or some other type of formal center-based care instead, according to the study's authors. "I would say that the crucial thing to take from the paper is that separation from the mother can be detrimental for children, but mothers can partially offset this by choosing the appropriate type of daycare," Professor Raquel Bernal, of Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, told Reuters Health

The government taking half of what we earn and parents' unwillingness to make sacrifices for their children have combined to create a society where both parents have to work just to make ends meet. I have friends who are not only stay at home moms but home schoolers -- even if that means having scrambled eggs for dinner a few times a week. They don't have the latest i-pods or video games because the future of their children is more important than the present. And they routinely educate their children at the kitchen table to the 96th percentile. I'm astonished at adults who can watch Animal Planet and marvel at how even a crocodile takes care of her children, and then drop their kids off the next day at daycare. If you are a two parent family, it is your DUTY to put your children first. EVERYTHING else goes on the back burner. If you are single, it is your MORAL OBLIGATION not to have children out of wedlock. And if that means being virtuous, well golly gee, you might want to try that option.