There was an interesting story that broke last week about the Alberta Finance Minister’s comment that the best way to raise children is by having one parent stay home with them during the early childhood years.
Well, D’UH! Only a moron who is ignorant of parenting research doubts that!
But what was interesting was the reaction of the secular-left to her comments.
Excerpt:
Following the speech, however, the Minister was sharply criticized for her comments by Alberta Liberal leader David Swann, who called for her to apologize. Swann said Evans should be fired should she not do so. “If she really said these things, she must apologize,” said Swann. “If she doesn’t apologize, the premier must fire her. … These are truly outrageous claims. I have never been as stunned by the sheer arrogance and ignorance of the Tories as I am today.”
According to Swann, “In a sense, Iris Evans did us all a favor by revealing her contempt for the sacrifices made by hard-working Alberta families.” Swann suggested that Evans’ comments prove that the current PC government of Alberta is a “group of small-minded social conservatives who don’t understand the problems of ordinary Albertans.”
Are leftists totally stupid or something? I would LOVE to stay at home with my children, if I ever found woman I liked and got married and had some. Relationships and debates are even more interesting than programming all day. (And programming is very interesting!) Why are people so focussed on making and spending money? What could be more important than introducing children to God?
WINTERY KNIGHT 
Iris is completely right of course about families (we tend to solve that problem by networking with the rest of our family e.g. grandparents, uncles, cousins etc. to help raise the kids – it’s a totally different debate if you don’t come from Western Europe or North America).
She’s no Michelle though – she’s our finance minister and has helped Alberta get back into debt for the first time in five years. She works for a government that helped turn Alberta from a have province giving money to the feds to one that is now asking money from it.
Companies are moving to Saskatchewan now to escape her government’s incompetence.
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You’re the second person this week to tell me to move to Saskatchewan if I flee the USA. But isn’t it FREEZING on the prairies? Also, isn’t their low unemployment due to government spending, not to private sector economic growth? Is it sustainable?
I have a convertible… she doesn’t like salt. I also heard the roads are really bad from the 16 years of NDP (socialist) rule prior to electing the conservatives.
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Richard Dawkins would tell you that introducing children to God is equivalent (if not worse) to child-abuse.
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That just goes to show how poisonous liberalism is: It causes you to lose your common sense. Seriously, what could be more logical than a parent raising her children?!
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Apologize? Whatever for? That’s the most sensible and natural thing to do! As a matter of fact, that’s one of my prerequisites to get married. To be allowed (Yup, I said ‘allowed’. Now that’s going to make feminists see red, but like I care) to stay at home at least for a couple of years to raise my kids. I mean, what’s the point in the all the money we make if we can’t be there for our own kids. Strange! And I’ve personally noticed that kids with stay-at-home moms had better moral sense than kids who had working moms.
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I have heard that school teachers can tell the children who had stay-at-home moms compared to day care. I was made to read a book called “Home-Alone America” by my friend Andrew’s excellent wife Jen, and I was shocked at all the behavioral deficiencies caused by day care (i.e. – legalized parental abandonment). The effects on children are nearly as bad as what the 40% out-of-wedlock birth rate does to children.
I think we need to be clear about the modern single woman who votes Democrat. Democrats support abortion, government-run child care, no-fault divorce, and massive government social programs that encourage things like pre-marital sex and abortion.
So when you are looking at one of the 60% of single women who vote Democrat, you are looking at a woman who wants to have irresponsible sex, and then to kill the results of her actions instead of accepting any limit on her happiness. She will not take responsibility – she would prefer to take an innocent life in order to avoid the consequences of her own recreational sex decisions.
Secondly, the 60% of single women who vote Democrat have no interest in children as a whole – but only in having them and getting happy feelings from them. The diaper changing and other unpleasantness can be left to a nanny or a stranger in a germy day care.
Thirdly, the 60% of single women who vote Democrat would prefer to have government social programs take the place of a father and husband. The more you grow government to redistribute money to social programs, the less responsibility women have to choose a good husband and to care what his needs are.
This is the situation faced by the young Christian man today. Only 35% of single women vote Republican. That’s one third! These are the only women who might still believe in personal morality and responsibility. These are the only women who think that when you have children, you need to be prepared to sacrifice and submit to difficulties in order to raise them. These are the only women who believe that it is important to carefully choose a good man and to be attentive to his needs, as well as those of the children.
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You know what I seriously think the problem is? Most women, if you ask them, would say “I want to marry a man whom I can love and who’ll love me”. I’ve rarely come across women who say they want to marry men whom they can “love and respect”. Because they can love a not-so-perfect man, but to respect a man, they need to look forward to finding socially responsible men. And such men, for some reason, they don’t find appealing. What they don’t realize is that such men are those who would respect them as well. Such men would truly appreciate them. Most women have become such misguided souls these days that it’s such a pity!
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“What could be more important than introducing children to God?”
Nothing at all… Unless you count living a life before them that glorifies Him and raises His reputation in their sight, which includes humility and repentence in the midst of our inevitable mistakes.
Great post and responses WK.
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I can’t think of a single respectable one who does.
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