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Wisconsin Lawmaker Introduces Law To Classify Single Parenthood As Child Abuse
Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) has introduced a bill demonizing single parents by classifying them as child abusers.
Senate Bill 507 specifically requires "the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect."
A third of Wisconsin parents are single parents, but this law affects even more than that. The way the law refers to "nonmarital parenthood" also makes this applicable to non-married couples, including same-sex couples. S.B. 507 reads:
Section 2. 48.982 (2) (g) 4. of the statutes is amended to read: 48.982 (2) (g) 4. Disseminate information about the problems of and methods of preventing child abuse and neglect to the public and to organizations concerned with those problems. In disseminating that information, the board shall emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.
http://chicagoist.com/2012/03/07/wi_grothman_parenthood_abuse.php
Courtesy Flush
(4,558 posts)I have a question:
If a military wife receives word that her husband has died in the service of his country, will she be immediately charged with abuse, or will she be allowed a mourning period?
Perhaps she'll be allowed to flee the state to keep her kids out of foster care.
Thanks for your time.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)It takes a special kind of assholery to come up with a proposal like this.
Apparently the GOP has a bumper crop of that.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)I am going to bet his bill doesn't have a chance in hell of passing.
He is just putting it forth to show his "yes I am a fucking lunatic" creds that every Conservative seems to fighting for.
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Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)NOLALady
(4,003 posts)He was a single parent, as my Mother died when I was two.
Bluerthanblue
(13,669 posts)she should give her unborn child up for adoption- he was acting as her spiritual advisor.
This stupidity doesn't surprise me.
Left coast liberal
(1,138 posts)meow2u3
(24,764 posts)He sure as hell knows everything about how to raise a kid.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)that's not really the point, is it? These people are bat-shit crazy. If this guy isn't shut down by a mass of negative publicity on this, he'll just come back with it re-written in a way that may be "more palatable". In other words, sneakier and more stealth-like. Let's not forget that Newt Gingrich floated the idea of taking kids away from "poor" people and putting them in orphanages "for their own good". Now he wants to put kids to work as janitors. The governor of Maine wanted to eliminate child labor laws. They're getting crazier and crazier, and the MSM is totally ignoring it. I had absolutely NO idea this had happened until it was posted here, and yet it happened back in March?
RagAss
(13,832 posts)Who raised these motherfuckers ?
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)As a single father that raised three children into adulthood all by myself, please go fuck yourself, you Republican shitstain.