Comments on: A Few Must Reads https://writingmywrongs.com/2012/03/27/a-few-must-reads/ When a mother is forced to choose between the child and the culture, there is something abhorrently cruel and unconsidered about that culture. A culture that requires harm to one's soul in order to follow the cultures prescriptions is a very sick culture indeed. This 'culture' can be the one a woman lives in, but more damning yet, it can be the one she carries around and complies with within her own mind....." -- Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:23:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Denise https://writingmywrongs.com/2012/03/27/a-few-must-reads/#comment-10440 Denise Sat, 31 Mar 2012 05:30:50 +0000 https://writingmywrongs.com/?p=1971#comment-10440 Suz, I agree. On all counts: pleased that someone as revered as Dan Rather is working on this, and that we've stopped pretending that the BSE was the end of scooped babies. It continues today, hopefully with less success, but possibly not. I'm thinking we were easy marks and that coercive tactics may be even more necessary today. Suz, I agree. On all counts: pleased that someone as revered as Dan Rather is working on this, and that we’ve stopped pretending that the BSE was the end of scooped babies. It continues today, hopefully with less success, but possibly not. I’m thinking we were easy marks and that coercive tactics may be even more necessary today.

]]> By: Suz https://writingmywrongs.com/2012/03/27/a-few-must-reads/#comment-10414 Suz Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:17:57 +0000 https://writingmywrongs.com/?p=1971#comment-10414 Maybe - OMG. So true. Exactly. Maybe – OMG. So true. Exactly.

]]> By: maybe https://writingmywrongs.com/2012/03/27/a-few-must-reads/#comment-10412 maybe Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:39:48 +0000 https://writingmywrongs.com/?p=1971#comment-10412 I too was dismayed by many of the comments, but also suprised those who instinctively understood that separating a mother and baby is sickening. Warms my heart to know there are many people out there who do not have hearts of stone. Most of the negative comments were from folks who don't believe in any type of public assistance and they also think it is wrong for grandparents to provide assistance. Oddly, they wax poetic about family values but then think family should walk away when one of their own is in need. I guess we should start telling granny to get her sh!t together and get a job instead of asking us younger peeps for help. Works both ways, right? I too was dismayed by many of the comments, but also suprised those who instinctively understood that separating a mother and baby is sickening. Warms my heart to know there are many people out there who do not have hearts of stone.

Most of the negative comments were from folks who don’t believe in any type of public assistance and they also think it is wrong for grandparents to provide assistance. Oddly, they wax poetic about family values but then think family should walk away when one of their own is in need. I guess we should start telling granny to get her sh!t together and get a job instead of asking us younger peeps for help. Works both ways, right?

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