Casual Sex is a Turn-Off For the Modern Woman

StatsCan Childcare Survey Shows Parents Prefer Children Raised at Home, Not in Daycare

New Canadian Official at U.N. Disappoints Pro-Life Hopes

Discrimination Against Traditional Mothers

Thousands March Against Abortion in Colombia

MI Governor Signs an Ultrasound-Abortion Bill

Malta President Unveils National Pro-Life Monument...

PP. ~ one-third of Planned Parenthood’s income comes from American taxpayers. In its most recent fiscal year, over $265 Million came from federal, state, and local gov’t sources. Visit American Life League’s petition in protest at www.stopplannedparenthoodtaxfunding.com. [Cincinnati Right to Life, 3/06]

4-YEAR-OLD KILLED FOR REFUSING TO CALL MOM'S LESBIAN LOVER "DADDY"
By John-Henry Westen JOHANNESBURG, March 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Writing in the South African paper, The Star, journalist Baldwin Ndaba reports on the outcome of a court case concerning the death of four year old Jandre Botha, a young boy who according to evidence given in court was beaten to death after refusing to call his mother's lesbian love "Daddy".  Court magistrate Rita Willemse found Engeline de Nysschen (33), and the child's mother Hanelie Botha (31) guilty of murder in the death of the child.  While de Nysschen was found to have inflicted the violence, the judge ruled against Botha for failing to act in the face of repeated physical abuse of her child by de Nysschen, and lying in order to protect her. Court testimony from employees of the lesbian couple indicated that a major assault on the boy occurred as he refused repeated requests to call de Nysschen "Daddy".  Injuries included a fractured skull and brain damage, as well as broken legs, collarbone, hands and pelvis which were sustained over time. A pre-sentencing report is expected June 26. [http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=128&fArticleId=3171828; 24Mar06, LifeSiteNews.com]

CASUAL SEX IS A TURN-OFF FOR THE MODERN WOMAN. Female liberation is a myth, delegates are told at the British Psychological Society conference. The idea that women might seek to have a one-off sexual encounter purely in the pursuit of pleasure is simply not believed by most women, who regard others who have one-night stands as desperate, pitiful or extremely needy.  Dr Hinchliff conducted interviews with 46 women to explore their ideas on sexuality as part of a wider research programme on women’s sexual health. Participants, chosen from the electoral roll in Sheffield, were aged between 23 and 83, with an average age of 48.

The findings, presented at the British Psychological Society annual conference in Cardiff, show that while women did not condemn others who had casual sex, 90 per cent believed them to be wrong. Many believed that women couldn’t have sex for their own pleasure outside of a committed relationship.

“They argued that women who have casual sex or one-night stands do it not because they are sexually liberalised, but because they have ‘lost control’ on alcohol or drugs or because there is ‘something lacking’ in their lives. They pitied these women and they saw it as deviant behaviour,” Dr Hinchliff said.

The findings show a degree of double standards. The 10 per cent of women who admitted to having had one-night stands said that in their case it had been different — they had simply been finding out about relationships. Overall, older women were more accepting than younger women, although they still shared these views. [By Alexandra Frean http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2-2112244%2C00.html; Valko RN, 31Mar06]

STATSCAN CHILDCARE SURVEY SHOWS PARENTS PREFER CHILDREN RAISED AT HOME, Not Daycare.  Statistics Canada reveals that Canadians prefer to raise their children at home and that their preference is for childcare by a relative in the child’s home and not in daycare. The numbers released show a shift away from outside childcare and lend support for the  Conservative Party’s $1200 per child annual child care payment. The Conservative party relied heavily during the election on Canadian opposition to the former Liberal government’s plan to create a massive state-funded universal childcare system.

The study shows that the proportion of children cared for outside the home by a non-relative (the most common form of child care in 1994-1995) fell in 2002-03 from 43% to 30%. The proportion of children cared for by a relative either inside or outside the child's home rose from 22% to nearly 30%. Only in Quebec was there a significant jump in the use of daycare centres from 25% to 52%.

The Conservative Party’s “Choice in Childcare” program was the cornerstone of Stephen Harper’s election campaign and polls have shown that it was popular with the majority of Canadian voters weary of huge and expensive social programs. Overall, StatsCan shows that care by a non-relative outside the home – the proposed universal system pushed by the Liberal government and backed by the NDP and Bloc – is down in all provinces. Childcare by a relative in the child’s home rose from 8% in 1994-1995 to 14% in 2002-2003. In British Columbia and Alberta this type of care almost tripled from 8% to 21% and 6% to 17%, respectively, during the eight-year period.

A coalition of leftists and Opposition MP’s have formed to try to pressure the government to retain the Liberal party’s plan for universal, state-sponsored childcare.  Barbara Byers, executive vice-president of the Canadian Labour Congress revealed the coalition’s feminist ideological bias saying, “This government has its focus on the family all wrong. For working women, childcare is all about equality.”

Conservative MP, Rona Ambrose, said before the election that the Liberal Party’s insistence on state-run childcare showed their contempt for the real preferences of Canadian mothers.

Other reports on daycare:
Study Shows Canada’s Universal Daycare Plan Has “Strikingly Negative” Consequences
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/feb/06020205.html
Study: Mothers Care Best for Toddlers, Daycare is Disastrous and Even Relatives Are Lacking
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/oct/05100401.html
Study Finds Daycare Damages Babies Brain Chemistry
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/mar/06032903.html
Liberal’s “Universal” Childcare Leaves Out 75% of Canadian Families
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jan/06010512.html
Preschool Damages Children’s Social Skills and Emotional Development
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/nov/05111001.html
Study Links Child Aggression to Time in Day Care
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/aug/03082108.html
[by Hilary White, 5April06 LifeSiteNews.com]

CANADIAN OFFICIAL AT UN DISAPPOINTS PRO-LIFE HOPES. In a speech to the Commission on Population and Development at the UN a Canadian official endorsed language in international documents that has been used in the past to try to force nations to legalize abortion. The speech was disappointing news to pro-life and pro-family advocates at the UN who had hoped the new Conservative administration in Canada would result in a family-friendly delegation in New York.

Brian Grant, the Director-General of International and Intergovernmental Relations, Citizenship and Immigration in the Canadian federal government spoke to the Commission on Tuesday. In five instances Grant called on UN officials to "achieve," provide "access" to, or "to address" the "sexual and reproductive health and rights" of the world's population. In UN parlance such language is used to refer to abortion, the distribution of contraceptives to minors and even legalized prostitution. Leading pro-abortion NGOs have long asserted that documents guaranteeing "sexual and reproductive health and rights" create an international right to abortion.

The recent election victory in Canada of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his pro-life-leaning Conservative party led many to hope that Canada's representation at the UN would change. But the delegation's acts this past week indicate no progress has been made in that direction. Also, weeks ago Harper selected Peter MacKay to be Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs.

MacKay is known to be one of the more pro-abortion and anti-family members of the Conservative Party caucus in the House of Commons. The Minister of Foreign Affairs will have a great say in the future direction of the Canadian Permanent Mission to the UN. [Friday Fax Vol 9, No. 16, 7 Apr06, By Bradford Short, C-Fam]

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST TRADITIONAL MOTHERS. Thus the logic of feminism: A prominent female member of the Dutch parliament has proposed fining college-educated Dutch women who choose to be homemakers rather than work.  Sharon Dijksma, deputy chairwoman of the Dutch Labor Party, provides yet more evidence that feminism was never about giving women choices but about destroying the family in order to enhance the power of the state.

"A highly-educated woman who chooses to stay at home and not to work--that is destruction of capital," Dijksma said, according to the English-language Brussels Journal (www.brusselsjournal.com) on March 31.

"If you receive the benefit of an expensive education at society's expense, you should not be allowed to throw away that knowledge unpunished."  In the Netherlands, the state pays for college tuition.

Thus, too, the logic of socialism: The people are taxed heavily, then provided with "free" services, and then, because the government has deigned to return some of the people's tax money back to them, politicians and bureaucrats get to run the people's lives... prominent feminists in Western Europe are now openly hostile toward homemakers.

Dijksma wants to extract some of the cost of their college education from the women who love their children more than paid work, and who are fortunate enough to have husbands who can enable them to stay home.  This despite the continued rise of women's labor force participation in the Netherlands.  "Between 2001 and 2005, the number of Dutch women aged between 15 and 65 who were out on the labour market rose from 55.9 to 58.7%," reported the Journal. And this despite the cataclysmic drop in Dutch birthrates.

You would think Dutch leaders would want to encourage child-rearing, and homemakers are far more likely to have more than one child than full-time career women.  Currently, Dutch women average 1.7 children over their lives, well below the replacement rate of 2.1...Yet Dijksma wants to promote a policy that will drive down the native Dutch population's birthrate even further.

She might consider that having a relatively small proportion of prolific homemakers could raise the Dutch birthrate.  If 20% of Dutch women had four children each and the rest averaged 1.5, the Netherlands would be almost at replacement rate fertility.  If the Dutch government made it easier, rather than harder, for women to stay home and have more children but only a little more than 1 out of 5 women took advantage of it, the Netherlands could be saved from the nation's suicidal birthrate.

 Our own country has many forms of discrimination against traditional mothers.  It's not as if American women didn't want to be homemakers: 77% of working mothers say they'd rather be home.

Yet feminists, so enamored of choice when it comes to abortion and homosexuality, aren't trying to help these three-quarters of working mothers achieve their desires.  Quite the opposite. 

Dijksma's plan [does not] come from a marginal Dutch political faction..."The PvdA is generally expected to win the general elections next year, when the 35-year-old Dijksma, who has been an MP since she was 23 and is a leading figure in the party, might become a government minister." The Dutch Labor Party's website carries a favorable treatment of her proposal.  "If you receive the benefit of an expensive education at the cost of society, you should not be allowed to throw away that knowledge unpunished," Dijksma says, according to Expatica News.

Needless to say, having an educated women with her children all day is not a waste of anything. [PRI Weekly Briefing,  6 April 2006 Vol. 8 / No. 14; by Joseph A. D'Agostino, Vice President for Communications at the Population Research Institute; www.pop.org Population Research Institute. Permission to reprint granted. Redistribute widely. Credit required.]

THOUSANDS MARCH AGAINST ABORTION IN COLOMBIA.  Hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers took to the streets in Bogota 2Apr06 to demonstrate against abortion. A case before the nation's Constitutional Court is to decide, likely within a month, on whether abortion should be legalized in the country.

In a letter addressed to Dan Zeidler, the U.S. representative of the Caracas-based Latin American Alliance for the Family, Pedro Rubiano explained the gravity of the situation. "The future, not only of Colombia, but of all of Latin America is at stake," he wrote.  "The loss of one country (in terms of legal protection for the unborn) will substantially weaken the pro-life fabric of all of Latin America.  What begins as a small hole will end as a huge tear allowing much evil to come in.  We would no longer be a solid bloc protecting and loving all of life." A photo of part of the massive crowd is available at the El Tiempo newspaper, which although described by pro-lifers as hostile to the cause, had to admit nonetheless that the crowd was over 100,000. [4Apr06, Bogota, LifeSiteNews.com,  By John-Henry Westen; coverage (in Spanish): http://eltiempo.terra.com.co/bogo/2006-04-03/ARTICULO-WEB-_NOTA_INTERIOR-2823502.html]

MI GOV GRANHOLM SIGNS ULTRASOUND-ABORTION BILL that would allow women considering an abortion to see a copy of their ultrasound if the abortion practitioner has ordered one. The move is somewhat of a surprise because Granholm has vetoed virtually every other piece of pro-life legislation state lawmakers have approved. The bill originally mandated that abortion practitioners should take an ultrasound image of the baby and provide it to women, but the bill was later changed to only require them to provide it if they have determined it's necessary.

Abortion facilities could decide an ultrasound would be helpful for determining the age of the unborn child before the abortion and, if they order one, they are obligated to show it to women considering an abortion. Pro-life groups support the bill saying it is an improvement on current informed consent law that provides women only pictures of fetal development, and not images of their own child. They point to statistics showing that women who see an ultrasound of their baby overwhelmingly opt against having an abortion. [LifeNews.com 26Mar06]

MALTA PRESIDENT UNVEILS NATIONAL PRO-LIFE MONUMENT IN ISLAND NATION. Adami, the president of Malta, has unveiled a national pro-life monument commissioned by the national pro-life group Gift of Life. Malta has long been considered one of the most pro-life nations in the world and abortion is illegal there. The ceremony marking the introduction of the memorial to unborn children took place on March 25. In late 2004, the United Nations placed Malta on a "hit list" of pro-life nations to be pressured to change their laws.

Maltese leaders criticized a document released by a UN committee urging the nation to consider allowing abortions in cases of rape or incest or to protect the health of the mother. In a statement, they called the recommendation "objectionable" and "unacceptable" and urged Malta residents to continue protecting the right to life of unborn children from conception. [LifeNews.com 26Mar06]