Comments on: My Opinion http://punkassblog.com/2009/02/16/my-opinion/ Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:59:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Faith http://punkassblog.com/2009/02/16/my-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-183646 Faith Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:55:21 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/?p=3012#comment-183646 "Faith, children can be victims of neglect no matter what their family size is. I think our societies do need to talk about neglected children, but that conversation is not about the Duggars or the Sulemans. It’s about all of us. (Me more than most - I had to raise my own younger brother while I was still a child myself)." Well, of course they can...never said they didn't. But I just can't see how children in such a large family could -not- end up neglected. I'm not attempting to be mean or misogynistic. I'm stating a simple fact that raising 18 kids sounds really fucking extreme. I am a low-income single mother with 2 kids and it's all I can do to take care of my two. Frankly, I don't even know how I'd manage with one more, much less 16 more. Raising children is hard goddamn work and not something to be taken on lightly or without the resources necessary. “Faith, children can be victims of neglect no matter what their family size is. I think our societies do need to talk about neglected children, but that conversation is not about the Duggars or the Sulemans. It’s about all of us. (Me more than most – I had to raise my own younger brother while I was still a child myself).”

Well, of course they can…never said they didn’t. But I just can’t see how children in such a large family could -not- end up neglected.

I’m not attempting to be mean or misogynistic. I’m stating a simple fact that raising 18 kids sounds really fucking extreme. I am a low-income single mother with 2 kids and it’s all I can do to take care of my two. Frankly, I don’t even know how I’d manage with one more, much less 16 more.

Raising children is hard goddamn work and not something to be taken on lightly or without the resources necessary.

]]> By: Maya http://punkassblog.com/2009/02/16/my-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-183270 Maya Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:08:19 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/?p=3012#comment-183270 I think that womens bodies have always been considered public property in that everyone feels justified in giving there opinion (you're too fat. too skinny, are selfish for not having chindren, you have too many children, you should dress this way, etc...). And even worse that women have an obligation to conform to those opinions or they are bad, disobediant women. I am not saying that people can't have an opinion about others as they apply to themselves ( I wouldn't want 14 kids or to look like Enigma for that matter), but judging and expecting your opinion to matter is something else all together. I think that womens bodies have always been considered public property in that everyone feels justified in giving there opinion (you’re too fat. too skinny, are selfish for not having chindren, you have too many children, you should dress this way, etc…). And even worse that women have an obligation to conform to those opinions or they are bad, disobediant women. I am not saying that people can’t have an opinion about others as they apply to themselves ( I wouldn’t want 14 kids or to look like Enigma for that matter), but judging and expecting your opinion to matter is something else all together.

]]> By: Thene http://punkassblog.com/2009/02/16/my-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-183269 Thene Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:59:07 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/?p=3012#comment-183269 Faith, children can be victims of neglect no matter <i>what</i> their family size is. I think our societies do need to talk about neglected children, but that conversation is not about the Duggars or the Sulemans. It's about all of us. (Me more than most - I had to raise my own younger brother while I was still a child myself). Faith, children can be victims of neglect no matter what their family size is. I think our societies do need to talk about neglected children, but that conversation is not about the Duggars or the Sulemans. It’s about all of us. (Me more than most – I had to raise my own younger brother while I was still a child myself).

]]> By: Faith http://punkassblog.com/2009/02/16/my-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-182668 Faith Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:18:41 +0000 http://punkassblog.com/?p=3012#comment-182668 "but conscious that unless actual minor neglect or abuse occurs, it’s really none of my fucking business in either a moral or a legal sense" I just have difficulty believing that children in a home with 17 other children aren't going to be the victims of neglect to some degree or another. It just doesn't seem possible to me unless the family is wealthy and able to hire LOTS of help. “but conscious that unless actual minor neglect or abuse occurs, it’s really none of my fucking business in either a moral or a legal sense”

I just have difficulty believing that children in a home with 17 other children aren’t going to be the victims of neglect to some degree or another. It just doesn’t seem possible to me unless the family is wealthy and able to hire LOTS of help.

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